Using ripples in space-time predicted by Einstein, a team of researchers has detected a cosmic merger of unprecedented ...

Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and a team of researchers have discovered an object in space they call the "Infinity" ...

The largest black hole collision ever recorded has scientists' jaws on the floor — and scratching their heads.

Discoveries keep pouring out of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Researchers observed an unusual cluster, which they ...

Everything about the Infinity Galaxy, recently discovered by the JWST, is strange. One odd feature could be the 1st evidence ...

Astronomers have detected the signal of a colossal black hole in deep space that likely formed when two already-large black ...

“It’s the most massive [merger] so far,” says Mark Hannam, a physicist at Cardiff University, UK, and part of the LVK ...

"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.

“Third, as an unexpected bonus, it turns out that both galaxy nuclei also have an active supermassive black hole. So, this ...

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and his team have discovered direct evidence of a black hole birth in a recently-collided galaxy duo named 'Infinity'.

The merger wasn’t just the biggest ever, but also an event so rare that it challenges existing models for black hole genesis.