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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Named GW 231123 after the date it was recorded on 23 November 2023, it's the most massive black hole collision we've seen yet, resulting in an object heavier than 225 Suns. Previously, the most ...

Professor Mark Hannam stated, 'These are the largest black holes we have confidently measured using gravitational waves.' ...