A group of Manitoba researchers were involved behind the scenes of an international effort that this week revealed how two ...

The future of at least one of the U.S. LIGO observatories is in jeopardy as deep cuts to science programs are proposed by the ...

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

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

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

Two colossal black holes among the most massive ever seen collided in deep space, creating gravitational waves that rippled ...

The largest black hole collision ever recorded has scientists' jaws on the floor — and scratching their heads.

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

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

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 ...

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