The research could shed light on how black holes vomit out matter and how this influences their home galaxies.

The near-light-speed outflows are crucial to understanding galaxy-black hole co-evolution.

Between May 2023 and January 2024, a global network of gravitational-wave detectors picked up 128 new cosmic signals, more than doubling the entire catalog built across the previous decade. The ...

Now, in the journal Physical Review Letters, researchers say their ability to analyze gravitational waves has improved so much over the past decade that they were recently able to verify a key idea ...

Like physics, math has its own set of “fundamental particles”—the prime numbers, which can’t be broken down into smaller natural numbers. They can only be divided by themselves and 1. And in a new ...

The catastrophic collision of a black hole and a neutron star sent ripples across the universe. New analysis of those ripples ...

The lasers alone would cost around one trillion dollars and the technology to create a nanocraft does not yet exist.

They’re the boogeymen of science fiction, a paradox of science and quite possibly a key to understanding the universe. Scientists have been scrambling to understand the mysterious forces of black ...

If you value independent local news, become a sustainer today. Your gift could help unlock a $1M challenge. On Sept. 14, 2015, physicists attained the long-sought goal of detecting gravitational waves ...

On Sept. 14, 2015, physicists attained the long-sought goal of detecting gravitational waves, the shockwaves spewed out by such cataclysmic events as the violent merger of two black holes. Now, in the ...