Learn more about LIGO, the observatory that detected two massive black holes merging, the largest in recorded history.

Twin orbs of superhot plasma at the Milky Way's center known as the "Fermi bubbles" contain inexplicable clouds of cold ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

It took less than a second for the space observatory hidden in Louisiana woods to detect a black hole that is that is ...

“It’s the most massive [merger] so far,” says Mark Hannam, a physicist at Cardiff University, UK, and part of the LVK ...

Astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia have spotted massive clouds of cold hydrogen gas hiding within the Fermi bubbles.

Scientists say the two black holes merged after colliding at speeds near the limit allowed by Albert Einstein’s theory of ...

Astronomers have detected cold hydrogen clouds within the Fermi bubbles near the Milky Way's core, suggesting a recent black hole eruption.

"It was something I’ve never seen before and I’ve looked at tens of thousands of images of galaxies over my career," he said.

In summer, we face toward the Milky Way's hub in the Teapot constellation, home to the galaxy's supermassive black hole.

New gravitational wave findings from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration report the discovery of the largest black hole merger ...

The new black hole has more than 200 times the mass of our sun – and is challenging theories of how objects form in space ...