Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

Scientists have observed a new type of black hole that is too heavy to have been born from a star but still too slim to … The ...

Scientists are using pulsars to detect the gravitational wave 'hum' created from supermassive black hole mergers. Credit: ...

New research published in Physical Review Letters suggests that superconducting magnets used in dark matter detection ...

Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...

Predicted by Einstein and dismissed as undetectable, gravitational waves were finally heard in 2016. Now, with observatories ...

With the aid of citizen scientists, astronomers have discovered an erupting cataclysmic variable star in a rarely seen ...

For decades, scientists have believed there should be black holes that fall between two well-known types. On one end are ...

A cataclysmic variable star isn’t technically a single object. Instead, it’s a compact binary system composed of a white ...

Citizen scientists working with the Kilonova Project made their first confirmed discovery of a rare exploding star, enabling ...

Similar to gravitational observatories on Earth, the laser light is the crucial component of the detector. Gravitational ...

A groundbreaking simulation reveals how neutron star mergers forge black holes, generate gamma-ray bursts, and scatter gold ...