Gravitational-wave detectors have captured their biggest spectacle yet: two gargantuan, rapidly spinning black holes likely forged by earlier smash-ups fused into a 225-solar-mass titan, GW231123. The ...

A group of Manitoba researchers were involved behind the scenes of an international effort that this week revealed the first ...

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

The future of at least one of the U.S. LIGO observatories is in jeopardy as deep cuts to science programs are proposed by the ...

The Trump administration has called for shutting down either a Tri-Cities, WA, or Louisiana observatory that work in tandem.

Astrophysicists have analyzed two merging black holes; the team's best models suggest that at least one, if not both, of the ...

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

The merger wasn’t just the biggest ever, but also an event so rare that it challenges existing models for black hole genesis.

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

Scientists say the two black holes merged after colliding at speeds near the limit allowed by Albert Einstein’s theory of ...

A gravitational wave has revealed the biggest black-hole merger ever recorded—so massive and extreme, it defies current astrophysical models. The clash formed a 225-solar-mass monster, possibly made ...