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

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

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

A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...

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

New gravitational wave findings from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration report the discovery of the largest black hole merger ...

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

In 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) directly detected gravitational waves, or ripples in space-time, for the first time ever—almost exactly one century after ...

A physics conference has received a report of the gravitational wave from the heaviest pair of black holes we’ve so far ...

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

A collaboration between humanity’s three gravitational wave detectors have identified a black hole merger event that created ...

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