It has been 10 years since the discovery of gravitational waves, which were eventually traced back to a merger of two black holes 1.3 billion years ago.

Ten years ago, astronomers made history when they first detected ripples in spacetime, called gravitational waves, from the ...

For scientists, learning more about how black holes behave is essential to understanding how the universe works. A recent ...

Pfalzner's models show that interstellar objects — bodies ejected from other star systems — could be captured by these planet-forming disks. These objects could "seed" the disks, sweeping past the ...

Maxwell McCombs and Donald Shaw helped popularize the phrase “Agenda-setting theory.” Following the publication of the Chapel ...

A decade ago, the first gravitational waves confirmed that black holes collide. Telescopes soon revealed shadows of giants ...

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From Newton’s falling apple to Einstein’s curved spacetime, our understanding of gravity has come a long way, yet this ...

For more than two decades, astronomers have wrestled with one of the biggest mysteries in science: what is driving the ...

Scientists have captured the clearest signal yet of a black hole collision, confirming Stephen Hawking's theory.

Gravitational waves shake the very fabric of the universe when black holes collide. Today we measure these events and use them to understand the ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole ...