Galaxies merging together create starbursts and supermassive black hole collisions. The new James W…

The discovery could change how we understand "the smallest to the largest objects in the universe,"…

Located a billion light years away from Earth, the collision doesn't pose any threat to th…

The rare occurrence in the nearby universe indicates that small merging groups are ideal laborat…

A supermassive black hole may have been kicked out of its galaxy after two other black holes moved …

Two black holes crashed together and merged within a disk of hot matter orbiting another larger bla…

Supermassive black holes merging in distant galaxies could be creating a background hum of gravitat…

Now, that is a whopping, enormous amount of energy. To compare, theoretical physicist Luboš Motl ca…

"Without sound you wouldn't detect all the life in the jungle," Stefano Vitale, Principal Investiga…

Astronomers call this material "dark matter." They know it's out there because its huge mass tugs o…

Until we recorded their gravitational waves, all evidence of black holes was indirect. "The regular…

Scott's team think the ripples in spacetime from this event, also known as gravitational waves, jus…

LIGO may also eventually aid in listening to the parts of the universe that were created shortly af…

Physicists just confirmed the first detection in a signal that came from a cataclysmic collision be…

And those scientists who are seeking out ancient black holes, including Kashlinsky, think they're p…

But the galaxy in question, IRAS 20100-4156, appears to be made up of three separate spiral galaxie…

Not even light can escape black holes, which means they're invisible to any of the instruments astr…