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

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

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

A record-breaking black hole collision has stunned scientists with its sheer scale and speed. Detected by the ...

It took less than a second for the space observatory hidden in Louisiana woods to detect a black hole that is that is approximately 225 times the mass of the sun.

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

Enter LIGO: The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. LIGO is actually two facilities, one located in Washington state and the other in Louisiana (jointly operated by Caltech and MIT).

LIGO detected gravitational waves created from the collision between two black holes. The detection was awesome, but let's look at the name of the detector for a second: Laser Interferometer ...

For now, the LIGO team cannot localize where these black holes merge. But as more detectors come online in Europe, Japan and India, researchers will be better able to triangulate the sources.

And LIGO’s second gravitational wave event, GW151226, is great for both! Essentially, on the pessimist’s side, GW151226 makes it all-but-certain that LIGO is picking up genuine gravitational ...

LIGO’s analysts worked for months to verify the first detection as well as the December event. The September event turned out to be the focus of February’s announcement.

When LIGO detected gravitational waves for the first time, we were delighted, but we weren't surprised. Theorists had calculated exactly the type of LIGO-sensitive signal that should result from ...