Since gravitational waves were first detected in 2015, instruments including LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA have picked up a steady ...

When two black holes orbit each other, they eventually spiral inward and collide in one of the most violent phenomena in the ...

Black holes are some of the most mysterious objects in the universe, but they aren’t always silent. When two black holes are close enough to each other, they spiral towards one another, eventually ...

Black holes do their most important work in hiding. The boundary that defines them, the event horizon, seals off anything that crosses it from the rest of the universe.

This week, researchers reported finding nanoplastics in Antarctic soils for the first time, suggesting they were delivered ...

A LONG TIME ago, in a galaxy far, far away—somewhere in the general direction of the constellation of Leo—two black holes ...

Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center’s Conceptual Image Lab Dust patterns around quasars may help reveal supermassive ...

Second only to black holes, neutron stars—incredibly dense star remnants—are the densest objects in the universe. When ...

These forbidden black holes shouldn’t exist, but they could change everything we know about how these giants are born ...

A view of the central region of the Perseus galaxy cluster, one of the most massive objects in the universe, shows the ...

Last year, astronomers were fascinated by a runaway asteroid passing through our Solar System from somewhere far beyond. It was moving at around 68 kilometres per second, just over double Earth’s ...