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

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

Scientists detect powerful gravitational wave burst, GW231123, from black hole collision challenging theories on black hole ...

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

The Trump administration has called for shutting down either a Tri-Cities, WA, or Louisiana observatory that work in tandem.

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

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

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

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

The proposed next generation of gravitational wave detectors will require hundreds of kilometers of ultrahigh vacuum beam ...

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

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