X-ray astronomy is a somewhat neglected corner of the more general field of astronomy. The biggest names in telescopes, like ...

Why Do Black Holes Form? Black holes form when a huge amount of matter is squeezed into a very small space. Cram enough ...

HaasMax Planck Institute "The era of gravitational wave astronomy has begun," LIGO scientist ... think the two black holes formed one black hole about 21 times the mass of the sun after merging.

If you packed more and more mass into the same tiny space ... known as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) picked up the ripples from a pair of black holes colliding. (This ...

The gravitational wave detectors LIGO and Virgo have detected a population ... events," says Dr. Mr.óz. "For 100 solar mass black holes, we expected 99 microlensing events. For 1,000 solar ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Scientists from the international Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) collaboration just announced that they've recorded gravitational waves ...

If a star orbits a black hole, it will appear from a distance to be orbiting empty space. Gaia projects the star’s orbit on a plane in the sky while ground-based telescopes meanwhile track how light ...

These black holes will be 10,000 times or even 100,000 times the mass of the sun ... Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) project, which includes the LIGO detectors in ...

Although these waves have already been detected by observatories such as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave ...