In October 2024 the network detected a clear signal that pointed back to a merger that occurred 700 million light-years away. The progenitor black holes were 20 and 6 solar masses and the larger ...

Fr. Flaviano Antonio Villanueva, 2025 Ramon Magsaysay awardee, called for “radical compassion,” which is the core of his commitment to stand with the poor, the homeless, and the families of victims of ...

Researchers detect the clearest black hole signal to date, enabling tests of Hawking's area theorem and advancing ...

But most of the gold on Earth isn’t in our hands; it’s deep underground. During the planet’s formation, heavy elements like gold and platinum sank toward the molten iron core. Geologists estimate that ...

Twin black hole collisions detected in 2024 have provided the sharpest-ever test of Einstein’s theory while revealing new details about how black holes form and spin.

For the first time, scientists have heard the haunting ‘cry’ of two newborn black holes — a sound born from one of the ...

Two recently observed black hole mergers, occurring just weeks apart in late 2024, have opened an extraordinary new window ...

Centuries before anyone pointed a telescope at the sky, Isaac Newton figured out how gravity works. He showed that any object ...

Two unusual gravitational-wave events, discovered by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA colloboration, enhance our understanding of black ...

A pair of distant cosmic black hole mergers, measured just one month apart in late 2024, is improving how scientists understand the nature and ...

"GW241011 and GW241110 are among the most novel events among the several hundred that the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA network has ...

New results from an international team including UBC astrophysicists highlight the first black hole observed to be spinning ...