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

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

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

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

The new black hole has more than 200 times the mass of our sun – and is challenging theories of how objects form in space ...

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

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

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 powerful merger, designated GW231123, produced an extremely large black hole about 225 times the mass of our Sun.

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

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

An international team of physicists uncovered the behemoth by detecting ripples in space-time from the violent collision.