APOD: 2026 March 26 – Black Holes and Neutron Stars: 218 Mergers and Counting
APOD: 2026 March 26 – Black Holes and Neutron Stars: 218 Mergers and Counting Discover the cosmos! Each…
Expanding catalog of black hole collisions is rewriting the history of the universe
Between May 2023 and January 2024, a global network of gravitational-wave detectors picked up 128 new cosmic signals,…
Scientists just doubled our catalog of black hole and neutron star collisions
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Newly discovered ripples in spacetime put Einstein’s general relativity to the test
When black holes collide, the crash generates ripples in the fabric of spacetime—gravitational waves. These distortions travel far…
New catalog more than doubles the number of gravitational-wave detections made by LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA observatories | MIT News
When the densest objects in the universe collide and merge, the violence sets off ripples, in the form…
Double Cosmic Explosion Gives Birth to Unprecedented ‘Superkilonova’
When massive stars die, they go out in fiery explosions called supernovas. On rarer occasions, two nearly dead…
That Black Hole Merger That ‘Shouldn’t’ Exist’? Scientists Propose a Wild Explanation
When LIGO broke news of an unintelligibly large black hole merger earlier this year, physicists were stunned but…
Scientists Think This Mysterious Signal May Have Come Through a Wormhole
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In May of 2019, a short-duration binary black hole…
A wormhole from another universe? Scientists revisit the puzzling black hole GW190521
In May 2019, astronomers picked up something strange in the fabric of spacetime. The LIGO and Virgo detectors…
New device gives LIGO 10x boost to spot distant gravitational waves
Gravitational waves, tiny ripples in spacetime caused by cosmic collisions like merging black holes, are almost impossibly faint.…
Scientists Say They May Have Just Detected a Wormhole From Another Universe
Back in 2019, the gravitational wave observatories LIGO and Virgo detected major ripples in spacetime. While astronomers generally…
Daylight Savings Time Is So Bad, It’s Messing With Our View of the Cosmos
Tracking gravitational waves—invisible ripples in space-time from intense astronomical events—pushes the limits of what astronomers must do to…