Astronomers have tracked a powerful blast of radiation back to its source, finding a neutron star collision within colliding galaxies.
Physicists at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, have used supercomputer simulations to predict a specific gravitational-wave fingerprint that would confirm quark-gluon plasma forms inside the ...
A newly analyzed gravitational-wave event has revealed something unexpected about one of the Universe’s most violent encounters. Scientists have found the first strong evidence that a black hole and a ...
As binary neutron stars spiral around each other to merge, their gravitational tidal forces distort each other's shape and structure, potentially revealing clues as to what lies within them.
A fresh analysis of gravitational wave data from a 2020 collision between a black hole and a neutron star has produced the first measured evidence of an eccentric, oval-shaped orbit in this type of ...