Astronomers detected in unprecedented detail a collision between two black holes. Their observations confirm predictions made ...

Researchers have spent 10 years improving the massive detectors they use to catch shockwaves from colliding black holes, and ...

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a Riverfest with fireworks, Gilman Square arts and music, Diane von Furstenburg talks, a pop-up serves Indonesian snacks and ...

An eon ago, when only microbes dwelled on Earth, a pair of black holes some 1.3 billion light-years beyond the solar system ...

Celebrating 10 years since the first detection of gravitational waves coming from colliding black holes, LIGO has confirmed ...

New views of two colliding black holes confirm predictions made by Stephen Hawking using Albert Einstein’s theory.

Researchers celebrate 10th anniversary of gravitational wave discovery, announce verification of a Hawking theorem.

Spacetime ripples from a black hole collision across the cosmos have confirmed weird aspects of black hole physics ...

First, gravitational waves proved Einstein correct. Now, they’ve confirmed Stephen Hawking was right about black holes.

The merger of two black holes is a momentous event, revealing the wildest and most extreme configurations of space, time and ...