Gravitational Waves: The latest discoveries and star crash news

A team has offered a way for gravitational wave events called dark sirens to resolve a crisis in cosmology

Evidence of collisions between black holes and neutron stars suggests dark matter might consist of concentrations of primordial black holes.

In 2017, astronomers witnessed the birth of a black hole for the first time.

What if one mission could study the gravitational ripples triggered by some of the most violent events in the universe — on the way to observing the least-known planets of our solar system?

A weird, super-powerful particle that's not truly a particle could have dominated the universe when it was just a second old, releasing a flood of ripples that permeated all of space-time.

Data from the now-destroyed Arecibo radio telescope has revealed a bizarre new type of hybrid venomous spider star.

Three years ago, two neutron stars collided in a cataclysmic crash, the first such merger ever observed directly. Naturally, scientists kept their eye on it — and now, something strange is happening.

Astronomers may be getting closer to discovering as-yet hidden cosmic secrets, such as the nature of dark matter and the presence of widespread distortions in space-time.

A team of physicists recently used a string-theory technique to reveal that we're on the cusp of detecting phase transitions in the early universe through their gravitational wave signature.

Here, we take a look at some of the most spectacular black hole findings of 2020.