Combining observations from several powerful telescopes, astronomers have detected a gargantuan, 'wobbling' black hole ...

Are merging black holes more common than we thought?

A merger of galaxies and their supermassive black holes in the ZS7 system was spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope. The ...

Two black holes in deep space. (The SXS [Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes] Project via LIGO/Caltech) (CN) — A merger of two black holes “ring” in the cosmos, producing ripples in the spacetime continuum, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2019, LIGO and Virgo detected GW190521—a mysterious gravitational wave that could mark either the colossal merger of two black ...

Newly appointed Cambridge professor says feat would accelerate scientific knowledge by an order of magnitude ...

When space telescopes blazed with high-energy radiation for hours earlier this year, astronomers suspected that they were witnessing something special. The cosmic flash GRB 250702B was no ...

It's one of astronomy's great mysteries: how did black holes get so big, so massive, so quickly. An answer to this cosmic ...

For the first time, scientists believe they have detected a merger of two black holes with eccentric orbits. According to a paper published in Nature Astronomy by researchers from Rochester Institute ...

Physicists have analyzed two enormous black hole mergers that happened one month apart and have come up with tantalizing evidence that rare "second-generation" black holes were involved. When you ...

Sound: vibrations that travel through the air or another medium and can be heard when they reach a person's or animal's ear. Seems like sound to me. Merge big enough black holes close enough and the ...