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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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