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

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)'s LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration has detected an ...

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

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration has announced a groundbreaking discovery in the field of gravitational wave astronomy. The international research team has detected the most massive merger ...

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

The LIGO Hanford Observatory near the Tri-Cities and its twin in Louisiana detected ripples of time and space passing through Earth from the most massive collision of black holes ever observed, a ...

One of the three main surveys that will be run by the Nancy Grace Roman space telescope will likely catch 100,000 cosmic ...

NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to revolutionize our understanding of the universe with an ...

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

A short-lived ripple in space-time revealed that two black holes merged into a giant black hole with the mass of 225 suns ...

Find out how these incredible astrophysical objects have influenced the formation and evolution of galaxies, and more.

How did supermassive black holes come to be? Astronomers have two hypotheses for their formation, and now one of them might have gotten the first tantalizing piece of direct evidence. Researchers ...