The current generation of gravitational wave detectors could "hear" supernovas over 65 million light-years away, helping ...

The citizen science app, available in eight languages, uses public input to identify kilonovae, neutron star mergers that ...

If possible, this could help scientists determine if the massive dying star that launches the detected supernova leaves a black hole or a neutron star in its wake. Since the first detection of ...

In February 2016, scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) confirmed they made the first-ever detection of gravitational waves (GWs). These events occur when ...

Astronomers from the National Central University in Taiwan have investigated an unusual superorbital period variation of an X ...

The newly identified black hole causes surrounding stars in a cluster to move in an unexpectedly ... July 16, 2024 — Astronomers have uncovered what appear to be 21 neutron stars in orbit around ...

Sarah Buchner, the lead science operator at the MeerKAT Radio Telescope, South Africa’s radio telescope is generating ...

New research suggests that black holes may actually be "frozen stars," bizarre quantum objects that lack a singularity and an ...