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

In 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) directly detected gravitational waves, or ripples in space-time, for the first time ever—almost exactly one century after ...

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)'s LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration has detected an ...

Collaboration has detected the merger of the most massive black holes ever observed with gravitational waves using the LIGO ...

The LIGO Hanford Observatory near the Tri-Cities and its twin in Louisiana detected ripples of time and space passing through ...

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

A collaboration between humanity’s three gravitational wave detectors have identified a black hole merger event that created ...

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

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 merger ...

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

India is building the third LIGO detector, thus completing the triad with the two existing US-based observatories.