The merger wasn’t just the biggest ever, but also an event so rare that it challenges existing models for black hole genesis.

Using ripples in space-time predicted by Einstein, a team of researchers has detected a cosmic merger of unprecedented ...

The largest black hole collision ever recorded has scientists' jaws on the floor — and scratching their heads.

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

The LIGO Hanford Observatory near the Tri-Cities and its twin in Louisiana detected ripples of time and space passing through ...

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

“It’s the most massive [merger] so far,” says Mark Hannam, a physicist at Cardiff University, UK, and part of the LVK ...

Gravitational-wave detectors have captured their biggest spectacle yet: two gargantuan, rapidly spinning black holes likely ...

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

Learn more about LIGO, the observatory that detected two massive black holes merging, the largest in recorded history.

It took less than a second for the space observatory hidden in Louisiana woods to detect a black hole that is that is ...

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