When two black holes meet, they are drawn to one another by way of their enormous gravity, initiating a powerful orbital ...

Astronomers had long suspected that certain quasars—those brilliant, otherworldly light sources fueled by supermassive black ...

Scientists have begun to unravel the origin story of a cataclysmic collision between two black holes, which seem to have met ...

After decades of searching, astronomers have imaged two supermassive black holes in orbit around each other at the heart of ...

The complex dance of two black holes locked in a doomed orbit has been revealed in a first-of-its-kind direct radio image. It's the first time astronomers have directly imaged the distinct jets of ...

Astronomers release first image of two supermassive black holes orbiting each other in quasar OJ287, provide evidence of ...

Gravitational waves are energy-carrying waves produced by the acceleration or disturbance of massive objects. These waves, ...

Scientists have captured the first direct image of two black holes orbiting each other inside quasar OJ287, confirming a theory debated for over four decades. The discovery, made using data from the ...

SXS—Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes—is an ongoing scientific collaboration that has been generating simulations of dramatic ...

The GWTC 4.0 catalog records 128 new gravitational wave signals, revealing mergers of black holes and neutron stars detected by LIGO.

Researchers from Rochester Institute of Technology’s Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation (CCRG) are using the world’s most powerful academic supercomputer to perform simulations that ...

Rochester Institute of Technology professors have developed a faster, more accurate way to assess gravitational wave signals and infer the astronomical sources that made them. Their method directly ...