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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

A puzzling gravitational wave was detected, and astronomers have determined that it comes from a record-breaking black hole ...

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

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