Might the universe’s most extreme black holes owe their existence to magnetism? In 2023, gravitational wave detectors LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA recorded an event that defied astrophysical logic: GW231123 ...

Two distant black hole mergers detected in late 2024 have emitted powerful gravitational waves that matched predictions made over a century ago by Albert Einstein.

U.K. science minister Lord Patrick Vallance told the BBC that they've developed a plan to phase out animal testing for ...

"Once you consider magnetic fields, you can actually explain the origins of this unique event." Scientists have gotten to the ...

The black hole was bigger than expected, and while the answer was hiding in plain sight, it still rewrites what we thought ...

Astronomers from the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA) and colleagues have determined how ...

In 2023, gravitational wave detectors picked up the signature of a collision 7 billion light years away. Two black holes had ...

In the blink of an eye after the Big Bang, the universe could have birthed strange new stars and black holes.

A new study suggests that during a potential phase of primordial matter domination, particle interactions may have led to the formation of the universe’s first compact cosmic objects. Less than a ...

Astronomers knew something did not add up when detectors picked up a vast cosmic crash in 2023. The signal, later named ...

New simulations suggest magnetic fields hold the key to forming black holes that defy known mass limits. When powerful ...

Before atomic elements came together, less than a second after the Big Bang, if particles condensed into halos of matter, ...