Astronomers spotted the largest flare ever released from a supermassive black hole as it snacked on a giant star.

A Skelmorlie artist has presented two new paintings to the University of Glasgow to celebrate the part the institution has ...

The symphonies registered by the wave detectors were produced during the collision that created the black holes, according to ...

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 ...

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

In January 2025, a ripple in spacetime reached Earth from more than a billion light-years away. It wasn’t light or radio ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It’s not often someone gets a front-row seat to a history-making event that forever changes our understanding of the universe, but for ...

A signal lasting less than a second traveled about 1.3 billion light years before it reached an observatory deep in the piney woods of Livingston 10 years ago. The brief signal — caused by a pair of ...

Ten years after the historic discovery of gravitational waves, and having spotted hundreds more of these space-time swells since then, physicists say they are only just getting started. On 14 ...

An illustration of GW250114 shows two black holes colliding, producing gravitational waves detected by LIGO, viewed from the perspective of one of the merging black holes. (Image: Aurore Simonnet (SSU ...

Ten years ago, scientists heard the universe rumble for the first time. That first discovery of gravitational waves proved a key prediction from Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity and ...