The titanic duo can help astronomers predict when the historic first detection of the background ‘hum’ of gravitational waves from supermassive black holes will be made
Deep Space
Deep Space
Deep Space
What happens when a giant star meets a smaller star?
Does one devour the other, or do they both co-exist? Find out the answer when stellar giants collide
Solar System
Early Uranus collided with object twice the size of Earth
Based on recent simulations, a powerful collision with a massive object four billion years ago could explain a number of Uranus’ observed attributes
News
Funky light signal provides evidence for black hole ‘death spiral’
Two space telescopes have provided the most compelling confirmation yet for a collision between two black holes
News
Hubble witnesses aftermath of galactic smash-up
According to this bright scattering of stars, it seems that NASA’s space telescope has captured the result of a galaxy collision