199 Results From "gravitational waves"

Astrophysicists have measured the recoil resulting from the birth of a new black hole that formed from the merger of two preexisting ones.
Gravitational Waves

Scientists Detect Strange Signal in Gravitational Waves

A team of astronomers believe they've witnessed, for the first time, a star exploding in a mythical "superkilonova."
Gravitational Waves

Astronomers Appear to Have Caught a Star Splitting In Half, With Catastrophic Results

Scientists have witnessed evidence of a collision between black holes so huge that it defies their understanding of physics.
Off-World

Scientists Detect Sign of Something Impossible Out in Deep Space

Wormhole researchers suggest that LIGO and Virgo instead picked up the signals of a black hole collision in a different universe than ours.
Science & Energy

Scientists Say They May Have Just Detected a Wormhole From Another Universe

Researchers say they've used gravitational wave reserach statistics to solve an Antikythera mechanism mystery.
Science & Energy

Researchers Make Breakthrough in Study of Mysterious 2000-Year-Old Computer Found in Shipwreck

Researchers suggest the collapse of a warp drive bubble could be detectable in the form of gravitational waves.
Off-World

Alien Warp Drives May Have Left Trails Through Space, Scientists Say

Primordial black holes neatly explain where all the dark matter in the universe is hiding — if we could find them.
Black Holes

Astronomers Struggle to Explain Why Ancient Black Holes Are Nowhere to Be Found

If true, this could resolve the information paradox posed by the existence of black holes, as first pointed out by Stephen Hawking.
Black Holes

Black Holes May Actually Be “Frozen Stars,” Scientists Claim

Scientists say they've spotted the first runaway supermassive black hole that's rocketing away from its home at a staggering speed.
James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Spots First Ever Supermassive Black Hole to Be Yeeted Out of Its Home Galaxy

A team of astronomers has detected the faint hum of gravitational waves echoing throughout our universe, possibly caused by black holes.
Black Holes

Astronomers Detect Mysterious Ripples in Spacetime Caused by Ancient Black Holes

Cosmologists are starting to suspect there may have been a second, transformative event like the Big bang that could explain dark matter.
Big Bang

Scientists Say There May Have Been a Second Big Bang

Astronomers have been detecting far more gravitational wave events than ever before, observing 35 events in a span of just four months.
Science & Energy

Scientists Detect “Tsunami” of Gravitational Waves

Researchers suggest that invisible masses may be passing in front of pulsars, temporarily blocking their light pulses.
Off-World

Massive, Mysterious Objects Detected Floating Through Deep Space

Our universe may have another mirror universe on the other side of the Big Bang running backwards in time, physicist hypothesize.
Science & Energy

Physicist Says There’s Another Universe Hiding Behind the Big Bang

Astronomers say they've found evidence of an ancient and never directly observed class of object known as a primordial black hole.
Big Bang

Scientists Discover Black Hole Created Less Than One Second After the Big Bang

A group of astronomers argues fast radio bursts may be the result of two neutron stars merging, an event that releases a huge electromagnetic charge.
Off-World

Astronomers May Have Just Found the Smoking Gun Behind Mysterious Radio Signals

Despite being many light-years away, two colliding neutron stars could create a powerful enough explosion to wipe out life on Earth.
Off-World

Explosion Light-Years Away Could Obliterate Life on Earth, Scientists Find

A team of scientists has proposed that we could use existing Earth-based observatories to hunt for highly intelligent alien life forms and their advanced warp drive technologies.
Exobiology

Scientists Propose Method for Detecting Alien Warp Drive Activity

Chance Glenn, an engineering professor, is ready to commit an entire lab to inch closer towards a warp drive by making use of simple antifreeze.
Science & Energy

Professor Believes Door to Warp Drive May Lie With Ethylene Glycol

Astronomers have observed a whole new mechanism by which stars can die — by smashing into each other in the most explosive fashion.
Off-World

Scientists Astounded When Two Stars Collide in Brain Melting Explosion