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A study published in Nature has established a new benchmark in modeling the universe's most extreme events: the collisions of ...

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A decade ago astrophysicists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), operated by the California ...

It emits strong radiation straight into the cosmic abyss. The Ansky black hole, located in the constellation Virgo, has ...

Astronomers have detected a rare black hole outside a galaxy’s core devouring a star in the first known offset tidal ...

A star in a faraway galaxy is sending itself into a spiral of doom, repeatedly plunging through a disk of hot gas surrounding ...

It emits strong radiation straight into the cosmic abyss. The Ansky black hole, located in the Virgo constellation, has ...

So-called dark money pouring into Democratic primary for mayor of Pittsburgh With just a week to go, the money keeps pouring ...

NASA's new project employs a technique known as sonification. It transmutes space data into sound, allowing us to ...

Ever since general relativity pointed to the existence of black holes, the scientific community has been wary of one peculiar ...