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

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

Scientists have detected the most massive black hole merger spotted so far. The event is at the limits of the capabilities of ...

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

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

New gravitational wave findings from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration report the discovery of the largest black hole merger ...

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

It was a bump in the night. A big one.On Nov. 23, 2023, waves from a colossal merger of two black holes reached Earth and ...

The biggest black hole merger yet observed could confirm a rare class of black holes long thought to be missing from the universe.

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration has detected the merger of the most massive black holes ever observed with gravitational waves using the LIGO observatories. The powerful merger produced a ...

The detection of the gravitational waves from this event, which actually occurred billions of years ago, was made by the LVK ...

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