This black hole merger animation was created using data collected by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors, an observation designated GW190412. Credits: © N. Fischer, H. Pfeiffer, A.

Miller contributed his neutron star merger simulations to The Well, one of the two datasets released by Polymathic AI. This dataset includes numerical simulations of complex phenomena, such as ...

As black holes slowly vanish through Hawking radiation, their information may be preserved in subtle space-time ripples, a ...

In the center of NGC 5084, some 80 million light-years away, the supermassive black hole around which the whole galaxy ...

For half a century, astrophysicists have been trying to solve the Black Hole Information Paradox—first explained by Stephen ...

From the moment it unfurled its distinctive hexagonal mirrors in early 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope has treated the world to a steady stream of remarkable images. This year was no exception: ...

Massive Merger: Study Reveals Evidence for Origin of Supermassive Black Hole at Galaxy's Center Sep. 6, 2024 — Researchers have discovered compelling evidence suggesting that the supermassive ...

Astronomers have discovered a unique black hole jet collision in the galaxy Centaurus A, producing a V-shaped X-ray emission.

This nonlocality is "nonviolent" because nothing energetic like an explosion or merger that is causing the ensuing gravitational waves — the ripples in space-time outside the black hole.