An international team of physicists discovered the largest-ever merger of 2 black holes through a phenomenon known as ...

A U.S. gravitational wave detector spotted a collision between fast-spinning “forbidden” black holes that challenge physics ...

The new black hole has more than 200 times the mass of our sun – and is challenging theories of how objects form in space ...

The massive black hole has been dubbed GW231123. Its unusual size and behavior is challenging scientists' understanding of ...

To date, the collaboration has detected dozens of merger events since its first Nobel Prize-winning discovery. Early detected ...

Named GW 231123 after the date it was recorded on 23 November 2023, it's the most massive black hole collision we've seen yet ...

The Trump administration has proposed closing either the LIGO Hanford observatory in WA or its twin in Louisiana.

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) is no stranger to making history and breaking records. In 2015 ...

Astronomers have detected the signal of a colossal black hole in deep space that likely formed when two already-large black ...

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

Supermassive black holes spiral towards each other in this simulation created by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center that ...

A puzzling gravitational wave was detected, and astronomers have determined that it comes from a record-breaking black hole ...