Jun 2022
Detected by gravitational lensing, the interstellar wanderer may be a hefty neutron star instead
A celestial loner might be the first known rogue black hole
Jun 2020
Researchers expect only gravitational waves to be spawned in these sorts of smashups
Colliding black holes may have created a surprising flare of light
Sep 2020
Famous for the first-ever image of a black hole, M87* is now revealing how it changes over time
EHT data show turbulence makes the glowing ring around M87’s black hole wobble
Sep 2019
Astronomers get a novel look at the beams of radio waves emitted by a pulsating dead star
Einstein’s general relativity reveals new features of a pulsar
Apr 2019
The supermassive beast lies in a galaxy called M87 more than 50 million light-years away
The first picture of a black hole opens a new era of astrophysics
Sep 2019
General relativity suggests the spacetime oddities can be fully described by their mass and spin
Gravitational waves from a ringing black hole support the no-hair theorem
Apr 2020
One big black hole and one little one partnered up, LIGO and Virgo detections show
Gravitational waves have revealed the first unevenly sized black hole pair
Apr 2019
Improved instruments could spot more colliding black holes or even new phenomena
The LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors are back on
Oct 2020
Scientists have now collected 50 sets of the spacetime tremors
LIGO and Virgo’s gravitational wave tally more than quadrupled in six months
Nov 2019
The technique can measure slight gravitational variations, which could help in mapping terrain
Trapping atoms in a laser beam offers a new way to measure gravity