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

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

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 ...

A new method to analyze gravitational-wave data could transform how we study some of the universe's most extreme events—black ...

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

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

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

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

L ast month, work began on the world’s first space-based gravitational wave detector. The European Space Agency and partner aerospace companies are developing orbiting, detector spacecraft to observe ...

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

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