State Senator Christopher Cabaldon is working on legislation to address regulatory gaps after the Esparto fireworks explosion ...

To date, the collaboration has detected dozens of merger events since its first Nobel Prize-winning discovery. Early detected mergers involved either two black holes or two neutron stars. In 2021, ...

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) achieved a historic milestone by making the first direct detection of gravitational waves in 2015. It originated from a black hole merger ...

The powerful merger, designated GW231123, produced an extremely large black hole about 225 times the mass of our Sun.

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

The bodies of seven people reported missing after a fireworks warehouse exploded in Yolo County last week have all been recovered, authorities said.

Colors, sparks, booms and whistles all require different pyrotechnic recipes. chensiyuan/WikimediaCommons, CC BY-SA Paul E.

ESPARTO, Calif. (AP) — An explosion at a fireworks warehouse in rural Northern California caused a massive fire, sending ...

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These are rare occurrences—scientists estimate that the giant black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy gobbles a star ...

The fireworks coming from the supermassive black hole in the Milky Way Scientists have discussed the power of black holes since their discovery in the 18th century, but what actually goes on in the ...

But if the core that remains, after all the fireworks, is greater than three or four times the mass of our Sun, it appears inevitable that the core will collapse into a "stellar-mass" black hole.