This black hole merger animation was created using data collected by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors, an ...

For decades, scientists have believed there should be black holes that fall between two well-known types. On one end are ...

In a recently published paper in Physical Review Letters, scientists propose a comprehensive theoretical framework indicating ...

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

A groundbreaking simulation reveals how neutron star mergers forge black holes, generate gamma-ray bursts, and scatter gold ...

Astronomers confirm ‘lite intermediate’ black holes, too large for ordinary stars, revealing clues about early stellar origins.

"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 ...

Study reveals that high-energy cosmic rays are born in magnetic fields during neutron star mergers, a prelude to black holes.

A spinning disk and a smartphone are all that are needed for students to study vibrations analogous to those produced by the ...

A computer simulation shows how two neutron stars of unequal mass merge, form a black hole and spit out a jet of high energy matter.