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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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