The eccentricity in the orbits of these black holes, detected using gravitational waves, could tell the story of their creation. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam, Germany, have developed an accurate model for the detection and interpretation of gravitational waves emitted by neutron ...

The merger of two black holes is one of the most sought-after observations of modern astronomy. The first observatories capable of directly detecting gravitational waves -- ripples in the fabric of ...

About 1.4 billion years ago, two orbiting black holes met in a colossal collision, forming a single entity—a new black hole—and sending the energy equivalent of the mass of our sun rippling out across ...

While searching the skies for brightness and blinking, the California Institute of Technology’s Zwicky Transient Facility sky survey spotted an odd pair of orbiting dead stars 8,000 light-years away.

Researchers at the Harvard and Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, along with colleagues at the University of Oklahoma and the University of Montreal, discovered a pair of white dwarf stars that ...

David Blair is a professor at the University of Western Australia. He receives funding from the Australian Research Council. He is a board member of the Gravity Discovery Centre Foundation and a ...

Observations made with a new instrument developed for use at the 2.1-meter telescope at the National Science Foundation's Kitt Peak National Observatory have led to the discovery of the fastest ...

Two stars circling each other are speeding up in a tell-tale way that scientists attribute to gravitational waves: ripples in the very fabric of space and time. The stars are dense objects called ...

Astrophysicists describe what galaxy-wide gravitational waves could mean for our understanding of black holes and the history of the cosmos. Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of space-time ...

Stars in the early universe probably formed in pairs, like the ones in this simulation created by a group of American astrophysicists. Their finding also has staggering implications: We may detect ...