Patricia Schmidt receives funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) through grants ST/V005677/1 and ST/Y00423X/1, and The Royal Society through a Research Grant RG\R1\241327. Geraint Pratten is ...

Scientists have used a gravitational wave detector to "hear" two black holes getting bigger as they merged into a single, gigantic entity. The detection, made by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational ...

Newly reported gravitational waves rang out as clear as a bell. Spotted in January, these spacetime ripples are the clearest yet discovered, cutting through the background noise better than any ...

On Wednesday September 2, 2025, college football insider Pete Thamel cited sources who are telling him that Cal Football has created a new section in the south end of California Memorial Stadium for ...

Watch as gas travels 30% of the speed around a four million solar mass black hole in a new European Southern Observatory simulation. Credit: ESO/Gravity Consortium/L. Calçada 58 shot, 8 dead, in ...

LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, has been called the most precise ruler in the world for its ability to measure motions more than 10,000 times smaller than the width of a ...

Cal football is introducing a new section at California Memorial Stadium for the 2025 season. The Golden Bears announced Wednesday that they'd be teaming up with longtime Las Vegas Raiders fan group ...

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Scientists have recently found a black hole with a mass 33 times that of our Sun, and it's surprisingly close to Earth—relatively speaking, of course! This massive black hole, located in a nearby ...

Just 500 million years after the Big Bang, a colossal black hole, 300 million times the mass of the Sun, was already blazing at the heart of a tiny, brilliant galaxy. Found with JWST, this discovery ...

This artist's concept takes a fanciful approach to imagining small primordial black holes. In reality, such tiny black holes would have a difficult time forming the accretion disks that make them ...

New York City mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani seemed at ease as he made his way from a high-rise apartment building to a street festival in the historic Black neighborhood of Harlem on a recent Sunday.