Black Hole Crash

Scientists at MIT just launched a new search for the waves of the Big Bang rippling through the universe. The plan is for a huge, sensitive, new-generation gravitational-wave detector. Over the following three years, the National Science Foundation will...

As part of the most extreme phenomena in the universe, black hole crashes evident in deep space as two massive, invisible bodies spiral toward each other has left scientists puzzled and pondering about the phenomenon. During black hole collisions, they...