In a discovery that could change how we understand the universe, a team of astronomers led by Yale’s Pieter van Dokkum has ...

"It was something I’ve never seen before and I’ve looked at tens of thousands of images of galaxies over my career," he said.

A gravitational wave has revealed the biggest black-hole merger ever recorded—so massive and extreme, it defies current astrophysical models. The clash formed a 225-solar-mass monster, possibly made ...

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration has announced a groundbreaking discovery in the field of gravitational wave ...

The largest black hole collision ever recorded has scientists' jaws on the floor — and scratching their heads.

Learn more about LIGO, the observatory that detected two massive black holes merging, the largest in recorded history.

Twin orbs of superhot plasma at the Milky Way's center known as the "Fermi bubbles" contain inexplicable clouds of cold ...

A short-lived ripple in space-time revealed that two black holes merged into a giant black hole with the mass of 225 suns ...

Everything about the Infinity Galaxy, recently discovered by the JWST, is strange. One odd feature could be the 1st evidence ...

“Third, as an unexpected bonus, it turns out that both galaxy nuclei also have an active supermassive black hole. So, this ...

Astronomers have detected the most massive black hole merger ever observed, challenging stellar evolution and black hole formation theories.

A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...