Long ago, in a galaxy far away, two black holes danced around each other, drawing ever closer until they ended in a cosmic collision that sent ripples through the fabric of spacetime. On September 14, ...

Less than a decade since the first detection of gravitational waves—ripples in spacetime itself—proposed budget cuts threaten ...

Sligo/Leitrim TD Martin has called on Irish Rail to provide additional trains from Sligo to Dublin on Sunday for the All-Ireland final to facilitate fans from South Donegal.Deputy Kenny said: “I have ...

The researchers are members of the LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA (LVK) collaboration, a global network of scientists detecting ...

Joseph Giaime, head of the observatory, joined Louisiana Considered to talk to us about the event’s significance, and how ...

The merger resulted in a combined black hole 225 times our sun’s mass, and challenges current astrophysical models of black ...

Sligo County Council has been urged once more to try to buy the land necessary to create a walking route to the cairn located above the Fox’s Den on Cairns Hill. Councillor Declan Bree told Monday’s ...

Astrophysicists have discovered the largest known merger of two black holes to form a larger single hole about 225 times the ...

To study this merger, scientists had to use advanced models that account for how fast-spinning black holes behave—a ...

A record-breaking black hole collision has stunned scientists with its sheer scale and speed. Detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observatories, the event merged two enormous black holes—each over 100 ...

The grant will create a weather network tailored to the parish and will allow for quicker and more accurate updates during ...

At 225 solar masses, this gargantuan merger of two black holes challenges our thinking on these famously elusive objects.