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

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

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

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

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

It took less than a second for the space observatory hidden in Louisiana woods to detect a black hole that is that is ...

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

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.

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 ...