The findings confirm the presence of rare binary systems and suggest certain black holes are second-generation, forged in earlier cosmic collisions.

In a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the international LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration reports on the ...

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Back in 2019, the gravitational wave observatories LIGO and Virgo detected major ripples in spacetime. While astronomers generally agree that the event, dubbed GW190521, was the result of two black ...

Teenagers and young adults are still harming themselves as part of a social media challenge that's now five years old. The Benadryl Challenge, which started in 2020 on TikTok, has spread to other ...

Major League Baseball's competition committee approved the automated strike zone challenge system for the 2026 season on Tuesday, the league announced. The 11-person committee consists of six owners, ...

LIGO's 2015 detection confirmed Einstein's theory and sparked a decade of data. Upgraded LIGOs now detect black hole mergers every three days with precision. New 2025 findings confirmed Hawking’s ...

On September 14, 2015, a signal arrived on Earth, carrying information about a pair of remote black holes that had spiraled together and merged. The signal had traveled about 1.3 billion years to ...

A signal lasting less than a second traveled about 1.3 billion light years before it reached an observatory deep in the piney woods of Livingston 10 years ago. The brief signal — caused by a pair of ...

Ten years after the historic discovery of gravitational waves, and having spotted hundreds more of these space-time swells since then, physicists say they are only just getting started. On 14 ...

Ten years after LIGO’s historical detection of gravitational waves, the project is cracking black hole mysteries at an astounding pace. Reading time: Reading time 4 minutes LIGO’s discovery of ...