Astrophysicists have analyzed two merging black holes; the team's best models suggest that at least one, if not both, of the ...

The future of at least one of the U.S. LIGO observatories is in jeopardy as deep cuts to science programs are proposed by the ...

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

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

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

Two colossal black holes among the most massive ever seen collided in deep space, creating gravitational waves that rippled ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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