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

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

The LIGO Hanford Observatory near the Tri-Cities and its twin in Louisiana detected ripples of time and space passing through Earth from the most massive collision of black holes ever observed, a ...

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

Bengaluru: India's space research priorities are expanding to include the chemistry of life's origins and the biology of survival beyond Earth, expert.

L ast month, work began on the world’s first space-based gravitational wave detector. The European Space Agency and partner aerospace companies are developing orbiting, detector spacecraft to observe ...

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) ...

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

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

India is building the third LIGO detector, thus completing the triad with the two existing US-based observatories.