Snapshot of the system at 1.3 seconds after the binary neutron star merger. The density (blue and green contour), magnetic field lines penetrating the black hole (magenta lines), and magnetically ...

A team of astronomers have found a pair of supermassive black holes near the center of a newly forming galaxy. The black holes were found hiding in the center of the galaxy merger known as UGC 4211.

Scientists have announced that they have recorded a signal unlike any gravitational wave signal they have recorded before. The team recorded the signal from a gravitational wave resulting from a ...

"In 2019, the gravitational wave detectors detected an event that originated from a binary neutron star merger that collapsed to a black hole right after the merger," Kota Hayashi, first author of the ...