Black holes are massive, strange and incredibly powerful astronomical objects. Scientists know that supermassive black holes ...

Supermassive black holes spiral towards each other in this simulation created by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center that ...

At 225 solar masses, this gargantuan merger of two black holes challenges our thinking on these famously elusive objects.

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

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

Black hole mergers release gravitational waves detected by observatories, revealing insights into the universe's mysteries.

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

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

At the core of the galaxy, about 26,000 light-years away in space, is Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole about 4 ...

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

NEWS 15 July 2025 Monster black hole merger is biggest ever seen Gravitational-wave detector LIGO spots fast-spinning ‘forbidden’ black holes that challenge physics models.

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