X-ray astronomy is a somewhat neglected corner of the more general field of astronomy. The biggest names in telescopes, like ...

Astronomers noticed that black holes detected by LIGO and Virgo are typically significantly more massive (20–100 solar masses) than those known previously in the Milky Way (5–20 solar masses).

In addition, the spin patterns of these black holes could determine which region of space they were born in. Facilities like the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO ...

Then, in 2015, two special detectors known as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) picked up the ripples from a pair of black holes colliding. (This also received a Nobel ...

"Before our discoveries, we didn’t even know for sure that black holes existed," Laura Cadonati, LIGO team member, said during a press conference. "What we do know now is that they do exist and ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Scientists from the international Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) collaboration just announced that they've recorded gravitational waves ...

For millions of years, two incredibly massive stars orbited one another in a distant part of space. The stars lived their lives circling one another as companions (or possibly frenemies).

In 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detected the invisible energy fluctuations of gravitational waves created by a pair of black holes merging almost a billion ...

Was it a binary black-hole merger? A double observation of… Read More The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO, has detected mergers of black holes, and even a couple ...

LIGO so far has seen about 200 events of stellar mass compact objects colliding and merging with each other. The overwhelming majority have been mergers of two black holes, but we’ve also seen ...

LIGO made a second detection in December 2015. When updates are complete, Rodriguez says, LIGO will detect hundreds of merging black hole binaries every year. “We’re going to be seeing a ton of these ...

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