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

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

In 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) directly detected gravitational waves, or ripples in space-time, for the first time ever—almost exactly one century after ...

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

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

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

Gravitational wave detectors have "heard" the ripples in space caused by the most massive black hole merger yet. One ...

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)'s LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration has detected an ...

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

A physics conference has received a report of the gravitational wave from the heaviest pair of black holes we’ve so far ...

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

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