Rather than relying on a cheek swab or a little blood, however, these cosmic DNA tests utilize tiny ripples in the fabric of ...

Researchers have demonstrated a new, unsupervised machine learning approach to find new patterns in the auxiliary channel data of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory.

Either way, to merge, they must get close, which means losing a lot of orbital energy. The first step in stealing energy from ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

The merging pair of black holes known as ZS7 is shown in this series of images zooming in on the system. In the rightmost image, JWST was able to clearly see emission from each of the black holes ...

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

When astronomers detected the first long-predicted gravitational waves in 2015, it opened a whole new window into the ...

This rare quasar with spiral arms could help astronomers understand how supermassive black holes feed and grow.

In 2015, when we detected gravitational waves for the first time, the observed ripples in space-time matched the predicted signal from two black holes spiralling into one another and merging.

"The Spiderweb protocluster is an ideal laboratory for investigating the relationship between black holes and star formation in detail." NASA's James Webb Space Telescope found evidence that ...