Are merging black holes more common than we thought?

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 ...

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 ...

For years, the James Webb Space Telescope has been spotting enormous black holes in the early universe that defy all ...

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 ...

LIGO's 2015 detection confirmed Einstein's theory and sparked a decade of data. Upgraded LIGOs now detect black hole mergers every three days with precision. New 2025 findings confirmed Hawking’s ...

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 ...

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 ...