Black holes are on a continuum of ultradense objects that form from the remnant cores of dead stars after they run out of ...

Astronomers led by Song Wang from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have discovered an unusual celestial phenomenon, ...

Over the past six decades, scientists have discovered two dozen stellar-mass black holes using X-ray methods. These black ...

In February 2016, scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) confirmed they made the first-ever detection of gravitational waves (GWs). These events occur when ...

Like two Sumo wrestlers squaring off, the closest confirmed pair of supermassive black holes have been observed in tight proximity.

In any globular cluster, all its stars formed at the same time, from the same cloud of gas. The Milky Way has around 150 ...

Chinese scientists used radial velocity and astrometry methods to discover a promising mass-gap black hole in the binary ...

The new Fourth Plinth sculpture by Teresa Margolles is unveiled at Trafalgar Square. The artwork is made from plaster casts of the faces of 726 living trans people in Mexico and is a tribute to the ...

In a recent study published in the journal Physical Review Letters, scientists from Copenhagen and Amsterdam said merging ...