Researchers have found a suspected clump of dark matter lurking within the luminous halo of a well-known "Einstein ring." The ...

Satellite data reveal that a weak region in Earth's magnetic field has grown by an area roughly half the size of continental ...

Astronomers at Goethe University Frankfurt have made a breakthrough discovery regarding the supermassive black hole M87*.

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A strange chirp detected by LIGO in 2019 has some scientists searching for answers beyond a simple black hole merger.

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

In a preprint titled “Can LIGO Detect Daylight Savings Time?,” Reed Essick, former LIGO member and now a physicist at the ...

Event Horizon Telescope data reveal the magnetic field around M87* shifted, weakened and then flipped, defying theoretical expectations.

In 2019, LIGO and Virgo recorded something truly bizarre – a gravitational wave event less than a tenth of a second in duration. Compared to the drawn-out chirps of black hole binaries on decaying ...