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 ...

In November 2024, gravitational-wave detectors recorded the violent merger of two black holes billions of light-years away. Normally, such events are invisible to telescopes, producing only faint ...

For just one-tenth of a second in May 2019, the universe delivered a signal that did not fit the usual script. LIGO and Virgo recorded a gravitational wave from GW190521, but unlike the familiar ...

Some of the biggest black holes ever picked up through gravitational waves may not have formed in a single stellar collapse ...

Researchers from Rochester Institute of Technology’s Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation (CCRG) are using the world’s most powerful academic supercomputer to perform simulations that ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

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 ...