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

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

Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and a team of researchers have discovered an object in space they call the "Infinity" ...

A new method to analyze gravitational-wave data could transform how we study some of the universe's most extreme events—black ...

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

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

Discoveries keep pouring out of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Researchers observed an unusual cluster, which they ...

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

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

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

A puzzling gravitational wave was detected, and astronomers have determined that it comes from a record-breaking black hole ...

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