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

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Scientists Detect Strange Signal in Gravitational Waves

By Victor Tangermann

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

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

By Victor Tangermann

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.

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Professor Believes Door to Warp Drive May Lie With Ethylene Glycol

By Victor Tangermann

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.

Scientists Propose Method for Detecting Alien Warp Drive Activity

By Victor Tangermann

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

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Scientists Detect “Tsunami” of Gravitational Waves

By Victor Tangermann

New Technique Uses Entire Milky Way as a Giant Observatory

New Technique Uses Entire Milky Way as a Giant Observatory

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists Say They’ve Found the Exact Center of the Solar System

Scientists Say They’ve Found the Exact Center of the Solar System

By Dan Robitzski

A team of experts discovered an unusual celestial object that's 2.6 solar masses, too big to be a neutron star, too small to be a black hole.

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Astronomers May Have Discovered First-Ever “Black Neutron Star”

By Victor Tangermann

To better understand how black holes form and what gravitational waves they give off, physicists are repeatedly simulating extremely violent supernovae.

Scientists Are Killing Off Virtual Stars to Study Black Holes

By Dan Robitzski

A pairing of orbiting black holes gave off gravitational waves that resonate at a perfect fifth, which makes them the perfect harmony to an Elvis song.

Signal From Deep Space Perfectly Harmonizes With Elvis Song

By Dan Robitzski

For the second time, LIGO researchers detected gravitational waves given off by a merging pair of neutron stars, but the collision challenges their models.

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Scientists Detect Epic Neutron Star Collision

By Dan Robitzski

New research has determined that nearly extreme black holes can have "hair" — but the defining characteristic doesn't last long.

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Physicists Finally Find a Way to Tell Certain Black Holes Apart

By Kristin Houser

For the first time, astronomers recorded the gravitational waves given off by the formation of a new black hole.

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Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves From Newborn Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

A pair of orbiting white dwarfs are challenging what astronomers thought they new about the binary systems — and more insights are on the horizon.

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Two Dead Stars Are Orbiting Each Other’s Corpses Incredibly Fast

By Kristin Houser

Astronomers discovered two distant supermassive black holes on a crash course with each other. They hope to learn whether such mergers are possible.

Two Supermassive Black Holes Are on a Devastating Crash Course

By Dan Robitzski

When the ESA launches LISA, a constellation of gravitational wave-detecting satellites, it will likely be able to spot new exoplanets across the galaxy.

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Gravitational Wave Detector May Find Exoplanets in Nearby Galaxies

By Dan Robitzski