An international team of astronomers has discovered a massive cloud of gas and dust located in a little-known region of our ...

Named GW 231123 after the date it was recorded on 23 November 2023, it's the most massive black hole collision we've seen yet ...

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For the first time, astronomers have spotted a star that exploded not once, but twice. A new image of a roughly 300-year-old supernova provides visual evidence that some dying stars undergo a double ...

While astronomers expect many supernova remnants remain to be discovered, the fact that Teleios was spotted at all “is pure luck,” Filipović says. Had it been located closer to the galactic plane, ...

Gravitational waves spotted by LIGO reveal two black holes, 140 and 100 times the mass of the sun, merged to become a 225 solar mass behemoth.

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

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If black holes weren't terrifying enough, two especially large ones are merging together, experts have discovered.

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One weekend in August 1996, a quarter of a million fans gathered in the grounds of Knebworth House, Hertfordshire, to crown Oasis as rulers of Cool Britannia. Drums thundered, guitars rang out, ...