Long ago, in a galaxy far away, two black holes danced around each other, drawing ever closer until they ended in a cosmic collision that sent ripples through the fabric of spacetime. On September 14, ...

Less than a decade since the first detection of gravitational waves—ripples in spacetime itself—proposed budget cuts threaten to silence this groundbreaking science ...

Sligo/Leitrim TD Martin has called on Irish Rail to provide additional trains from Sligo to Dublin on Sunday for the All-Ireland final to facilitate fans from South Donegal.Deputy Kenny said: “I have ...

The researchers are members of the LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA (LVK) collaboration, a global network of scientists detecting ...

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

The merger resulted in a combined black hole 225 times our sun’s mass, and challenges current astrophysical models of black ...

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

A record-breaking black hole collision has stunned scientists with its sheer scale and speed. Detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observatories, the event merged two enormous black holes—each over 100 ...

A strophysicists have discovered the largest known merger of two black holes to form a larger single hole about 225 times the mass of the sun. The violent collision between the spinning objects, one ...

Livingston Parish has been awarded $476,423 in federal funding to install nine advanced weather stations across the parish, ...

The grant will create a weather network tailored to the parish and will allow for quicker and more accurate updates during ...

At 225 solar masses, this gargantuan merger of two black holes challenges our thinking on these famously elusive objects.