Most galaxy collisions do not cause galaxies to stop making new stars. A galaxy’s central black hole and its slow, long-term ...

For decades, astronomers have cast galaxy mergers as the universe's ultimate relationship drama: two galaxies collide, chaos ...

While scientists know supermassive black holes collide, these events have remained invisible to telescopes. RIT researchers have now identified a specific spike in light that occurs at the moment of ...

SXS—Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes—is an ongoing scientific collaboration that has been generating simulations of dramatic events in space, particularly mergers of binary black hole systems, for ...

Scientists have developed a new framework that could finally apply the laws of thermodynamics to real, ever-changing black ...

A newly merged black hole does not become quiet at once. It vibrates, sheds energy through gravitational waves and produces a ...

Listening to the "ringing" produced by black holes after they collide and merge could allow scientists to test Einstein's ...

A massive hole in the starlight at the center of a giant galaxy may be the scar left behind by two colliding supermassive ...

Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center’s Conceptual Image Lab Dust patterns around quasars may help reveal supermassive ...

When researchers found evidence of a black hole flying out of its galaxy, nobody knew how that could happen. Now we have an ...