Gravitational Waves

Turning the Moon into a gravitational wave detector

That's no moon. It's a gravitational wave detector.

By Cassidy Ward | 

1 year ago

Explaining off-kilter black hole mergers may need a lot more black holes. A lot.

I heard you like black holes so I put black holes in your black holes with other black holes.

By Phil Plait | 

1 year ago

X-rays glow from blast waves as colliding neutron stars create a kilonova

I love every word in that headline.

By Phil Plait | 

1 year ago

This pair of supermassive black holes may be doomed to collide in 10,000 years

The tightest pair of monster black holes ever seen are 9 billion light years away.

By Phil Plait | 

1 year ago

Was GW190521 the result of eccentric, non-aligned black holes merging?

New analysis of a big merger yields strange results.

By Phil Plait | 

1 year ago

Is dark matter made of black holes born at the dawn of time?

Dark matter may be ancient black holes, according to new idea.

By Phil Plait | 

1 year ago

Closest monster supermassive black hole pair to Earth found in a nearby galaxy

Duo will eventually spiral together and merge.

By Phil Plait | 

1 year ago

Where are all the monstrous, massive, missing black holes?

Most telescopes can make out things human eyes would fail spectacularly at seeing, but not huge black holes.

By Elizabeth Rayne | 

1 year ago

*Thirty-five* new black hole and neutron star mergers found, bringing total known to 90

Gravitational wave astronomy is coming into its own 

By Phil Plait | 

1 year ago

Gargantuan black holes could be growing and growing as the universe expands

Unexpectedly huge black holes might have gotten gargantuan from the universe expanding.

By Elizabeth Rayne | 

1 year ago