OXFORD – University of Mississippi astrophysicist Anuradha Gupta has been selected among 15 recipients worldwide for the 2025 ...

As NASA reports, two astronomers working with raw Webb data the space agency periodically makes available to researchers, ...

Scientists say the two black holes merged after colliding at speeds near the limit allowed by Albert Einstein’s theory of ...

The future of at least one of the U.S. LIGO observatories is in jeopardy as deep cuts to science programs are proposed by the ...

This is the most massive black hole binary we’ve observed through gravitational waves, and it presents a real challenge to ...

"It was something I’ve never seen before and I’ve looked at tens of thousands of images of galaxies over my career," he said.

A gravitational wave has revealed the biggest black-hole merger ever recorded—so massive and extreme, it defies current astrophysical models. The clash formed a 225-solar-mass monster, possibly made ...

A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever recorded, according to new research. Gravitational waves were predicted by ...

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration has announced a groundbreaking discovery in the field of gravitational wave ...

The LIGO Hanford Observatory near the Tri-Cities and its twin in Louisiana detected ripples of time and space passing through Earth from the most massive collision of black holes ever observed, a ...

Astronomers have detected the most massive black hole merger ever observed, challenging stellar evolution and black hole formation theories.