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 ...

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

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

Astrophysicists have analyzed two merging black holes; the team's best models suggest that at least one, if not both, of the ...

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

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

New gravitational wave findings from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration report the discovery of the largest black hole merger ...

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

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

A physics conference has received a report of the gravitational wave from the heaviest pair of black holes we’ve so far ...

What occurs when the universe plays a cosmic curveball, breaking down long-standing assumptions about how black holes form?