In 2020, astronomers discovered a violent cosmic event that has led them to rethink how extreme pairs of astronomical objects form. These pairs are capable of producing powerful cosmic collisions. The ...

Astronomers analyzing the gravitational-wave event known as GW200105 report evidence that a black hole and neutron star spiraled into each other on an oval-shaped orbit, rather than the near-circular ...

The four gravitational wave observatories around the world have been busy lately, revealing hundreds of detections. These provide statistical insights into the collisions between the incredibly ...

Artist’s impression of an eccentric neutron star–black hole binary. The neutron star’s path is shown in blue and the black hole’s motion in orange as the two objects orbit each other. The eccentricity ...

Multi-messenger astronomy of neutron star mergers unites gravitational-wave detections, electromagnetic observations across the spectrum and potential neutrino and cosmic-ray signals to probe the ...

This artist’s impression shows two tiny but very dense neutron stars at the point at which they merge and explode. ESO/L. Calçada/M. Kornmesser, CC BY Billions of light years away in a remote part of ...

Powerful bright blue cosmic explosions called Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients could be caused when a black hole or ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

Scientists have uncovered the first robust evidence of a black hole and neutron star crashing together but orbiting in an oval path rather than a perfect circle just before they merged. This discovery ...