The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) is no stranger to making history and breaking records. In 2015 ...

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

Collaboration has detected the merger of the most massive black holes ever observed with gravitational waves using the LIGO ...

Collaboration has made a groundbreaking discovery by detecting the merger of the most massive black holes ever observed. The ...

A black hole jet from the Centaurus A galaxy is "hitting something along its path," that is baffling astronomers. The Chandra X-ray Telescop team takes you on a tour of the system. Credit: NASA/CXC/A.

"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...

A physics conference has received a report of the gravitational wave from the heaviest pair of black holes we’ve so far observed merging. The result is larger than theoretical models allow through ...

The most massive black holes ever observed with gravitational waves have been detected by the LIGO Hanford and Livingston ...

Merger creates black holes weighing 240 times the mass of our Sun — the heaviest binary black hole system confirmed through gravitational-wave observations.

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

Once again, gravitational waves have been observed whose origin should not actually exist: a collision of black holes with "forbidden" mass.