This black hole merger animation was created using data collected by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors, an ...

In a recently published paper in Physical Review Letters, scientists propose a comprehensive theoretical framework indicating ...

The brutal star-destroying tidal disruption event is only the second ever seen in interacting galaxies.

A neutron star's final moments may spark violent starquakes, monster shock waves, and even a fleeting, never-before-seen object called a black hole pulsar.

Gravitational waves have been uncovered from a massive black hole merger that shows the resultant black hole settling into a spherical shape for the first time, helping test Einstein’s theory of ...

We know black hole mergers occur because we can detect the resulting gravitational waves. But when trying to piece together ...

A groundbreaking simulation reveals how neutron star mergers forge black holes, generate gamma-ray bursts, and scatter gold ...

The two black holes were growing in tandem near the center of the coalescing galaxy resulting from the merger. They met when their host galaxies, known as UGC 4211, collided.

The result was a black hole with a mass of 142 Suns. Despite the merger’s power, its frequency was so low that gravitational wave detectors did not pick it up until after the black holes’ last ...

Two black holes merged while spinning in nearly opposite directions, suggesting that they were born in different places and found each other late in life, James R. Riordon reported in “New type ...

A computer simulation shows how two neutron stars of unequal mass merge, form a black hole and spit out a jet of high energy matter.