Largest black hole merger ever detected through gravitational waves
An international team of physicists uncovered the behemoth by detecting ripples in space-time from the violent collision. Sometime…
One Survey by NASA’s Roman Could Unveil 100,000 Cosmic Explosions
Scientists predict one of the major surveys by NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope may reveal around…
LIGO has spotted the most massive black hole collision ever detected
Illustration of merging of black holes Shutterstock / Jurik Peter A record-breaking black hole smash-up just expanded our…
Astronomers Detect a Black Hole Merger That’s So Massive It Shouldn’t Exist
Gravitational waves—ripples in space-time caused by violent cosmic events—travel at the speed of light in every direction, eventually…