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

Astronomers have detected the signal of a colossal black hole in deep space that likely formed when two already-large black ...

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.

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

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

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 ...

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