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

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Astronomers recently found a black hole that’s blowing everyone’s minds. This black hole is so massive and strange, it’s ...

Astronomers at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics have discovered that radiation and jets from supermassive black holes ...

In the 1960s, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union signed a treaty banning nuclear weapons tests ...

In a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the international LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration reports on the detection of two gravitational wave events in October and November of 2024 ...

AGN are bright centres of galaxies powered by matter falling into supermassive black holes, which are millions of times more ...

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

Ten years after the first detection of gravitational waves, scientists have captured the clearest signal yet — and it confirms one of Stephen Hawking’s most famous predictions. Using the upgraded LIGO ...

Neutron stars pack extreme mass into tiny volumes. Scientists explore how compact they can become before collapsing into ...

Could our solar system, and everything we know, actually exist inside a black hole? It sounds like something from a ...