The merger wasn’t just the biggest ever, but also an event so rare that it challenges existing models for black hole genesis.

Take a journey to 89 million light-years away from Earth to the NGC 7727 galaxy. It harbors the closest pair of supermassive ...

Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

Using ripples in space-time predicted by Einstein, a team of researchers has detected a cosmic merger of unprecedented ...

How do supermassive black holes form through the gradual demise of stars, or in a dramatic, sudden collapse of cosmic gas? That has been the question that has haunted astronomers for decades, but a ...

The largest black hole collision ever recorded has scientists' jaws on the floor — and scratching their heads.

In the latest instance of Google discouraging users from clicking on links, the search giant has launched a new feature that ...

With a lineup that feels both algorithmically-tailored and cautious, this year’s edition of NOS Alive raises as many questions as it answers.

Find out how these incredible astrophysical objects have influenced the formation and evolution of galaxies, and more.

JWST finds a black hole between galaxy cores, not inside either nucleus Infinity Galaxy may contain a rare black hole from direct gas collapse Galaxy’s figure-eight shape suggests a head-on galactic c ...

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration has announced a groundbreaking discovery in the field of gravitational wave ...