Scientists are using pulsars to detect the gravitational wave 'hum' created from supermassive black hole mergers. Credit: ...

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

A physics conference has received a report of the gravitational wave from the heaviest pair of black holes we’ve so far ...

Gravitational wave detectors have "heard" the ripples in space caused by the most massive black hole merger yet. One ...

The pair merged to create a single hole about 225 times the mass of the sun.

Two colossal black holes among the most massive ever seen collided in deep space, creating gravitational waves that rippled ...

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 ...

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

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

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

A new method to analyze gravitational-wave data could transform how we study some of the universe's most extreme events—black ...

A short-lived ripple in space-time revealed that two black holes merged into a giant black hole with the mass of 225 suns ...