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

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

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

Astronomers have detected the most massive black hole merger ever observed, challenging stellar evolution and black hole formation theories.

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

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

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

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

Ripples in space-time signalling the largest merger of two black holes ever seen challenge current understanding of the ...

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

This artist's concept illustrates a hierarchical scheme for merging black holes. Credit LIGO/Caltech/MIT/R. Hurt (IPAC) In a breathtaking leap for astrophysics, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) ...