Joseph Giaime, head of the observatory, joined Louisiana Considered to talk to us about the event’s significance, and how ...

Astrophysicists have discovered the largest known merger of two black holes to form a larger single hole about 225 times the ...

To study this merger, scientists had to use advanced models that account for how fast-spinning black holes behave—a ...

Astrophysicists have detected the largest known merger of two black holes, resulting in a gravitational wave that traversed the universe.

Recent observations of Jupiter's powerful magnetic field by NASA's Juno spacecraft have uncovered a never-before-documented ...