In a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the international LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration reports on the detection of two gravitational wave events in October and November of 2024 ...
How astronomers used gravitational lensing, a space-time trick predicted by Einstein, to detect a black hole measuring 30 ...
Small and unassuming, Segue 1 is a nearby dwarf galaxy containing only a handful of stars—too few to provide the gravity ...
They're important to scientists because they're the chemical precursors to the molecules that build life, such as amino acids ...
As the collapsed core of a massive star, a neutron star is a small but incredibly dense object, packing up to three times the ...
Ten years after the first detection of gravitational waves, scientists have captured the clearest signal yet — and it confirms one of Stephen Hawking’s most famous predictions. Using the upgraded LIGO ...
Data from Chandra X-ray telescope and James Webb Space Telescopes have revealed a black hole from 470 million years after the Big Bang. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart ...