In the case of those first detections, the signal was produced by pairs of black holes within our galaxy that had been orbiting one another and eventually merged. Although gravity holds us down on ...

Expect the unexpected In this artist’s rendering, a stream of matter trails a white dwarf orbiting within the innermost accretion disk surrounding 1ES 1927+654’s supermassive black hole. (Courtesy: ...

Scientists have discovered that some supermassive black holes rotate much more rapidly than expected. The discovery came as the result of a new form of "black hole archeology" that links black ...

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His contributions from a cultural perspective are also worthy of celebration — Black History Month being an opportune time to reflect on a Canadian football legend and a trailblazer. In 1995, Shivers ...

Core package to analyze gravitational-wave data, find signals, and study their parameters. This package was used in the first direct detection of gravitational waves (GW150914), and is used in the ...