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

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

Using ripples in space-time predicted by Einstein, researchers detected a cosmic merger of unprecedented proportions. A ...

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

“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 ...

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

The new black hole has more than 200 times the mass of our sun – and is challenging theories of how objects form in space ...

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

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

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

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