In the fall of 2024, two separate pairs of stellar mass black holes, hundreds of millions of light-years away, spiraled into each other and merged in collisions of unimaginable violence. But these ...

Go back in time with a trip to the Louisiana Art & Science Museum, home to a 2,300-year-old Egyptian mummy as well as a ...

Donald Trump's threats to cut funding towards research into black holes put any possible future discoveries "at risk," critics warn. It comes as key developments are happening within the field. For ...

A newly observed gravitational wave event from the collision of two massive, rapidly spinning black holes forces scientists to reconsider how these cosmic giants are born and grow.

On Nov. 2, Kip Thorne took the stage at Harvey Mudd College’s Galileo Auditorium to recount his 50 year odyssey of making ...

The international LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration has completed the fourth observation campaign (called O4) of the international network of gravitational wave detectors. Launched in May 2023, the ...

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are black holes theorized to have formed shortly after the Big Bang. Compared to black holes ...

New simulations suggest magnetic fields hold the key to forming black holes that defy known mass limits. When powerful ...

"Once you consider magnetic fields, you can actually explain the origins of this unique event." Scientists have gotten to the ...

"By the middle of next year, we expect to be in a position to decide on the way forward, with clarity on NASA funding and ...

In 2023, astronomers detected a huge collision . Two unprecedentedly massive black holes had crashed an estimated 7 billion light-years away. The ...

At Kapé Paris, Jessica Gonzales and Aurélie Véchot dare to introduce Filipino-inspired ube coffee and pastries ...