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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

The LIGO Hanford Observatory near the Tri-Cities and its twin in Louisiana detected ripples of time and space passing through ...

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

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

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

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