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

Astronomers have detected the largest black hole merger ever, and it has challenged their understanding of such formations.

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Gravitational wave detectors have "heard" the ripples in space caused by the most massive black hole merger yet. One ...

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 ...

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.