A team of astronomers have found a pair of supermassive black holes near the center of a newly forming galaxy. The black holes were found hiding in the center of the galaxy merger known as UGC 4211.

The eccentricity in the orbits of these black holes, detected using gravitational waves, could tell the story of their creation. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Scientists have begun to unravel the origin story of a cataclysmic collision between two black holes, which seem to have met their fate on a rarely observed "squashed" orbital path. Subscribe to our ...

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 ...

Researchers studying the aftermath of a gargantuan black hole collision may have confirmed a gravitational phenomenon predicted by Albert Einstein a century ago. According to new research published ...

It's pretty challenging for black holes to smash into each other, but it happens. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The many black ...

Understanding these mergers helps explain binary star fates and potential progenitors of thermonuclear supernovae. The six known DAQ type white dwarfs exhibit log (C/H) > –0.5 and appear in optical ...

The merger of two equal mass neutron stars is simulated using the 3-D code SNSPH. As the two stars merge, their outer edge ejects a spiral of neutron-rich material. The radioactivity in this ejected ...

The advent of gravitational wave detectors—there are now four of them—has recorded a steady flow of black hole mergers. As far as we can tell, almost all of them have behaved exactly as we would ...