The merger wasn’t just the biggest ever, but also an event so rare that it challenges existing models for black hole genesis.

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 ...

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration has announced a groundbreaking discovery in the field of gravitational wave ...

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

Physicists call such ripples gravitational waves. Gravitational waves were predicted by Albert Einstein in 1915 as part of his theory of relativity, but he thought they were too weak to ever ...

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

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

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

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

What occurs when two black holes, each greater than a hundred Suns, smash into each other in the shadows past our galaxy? In ...

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