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

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

Long ago, in a galaxy far away, two black holes danced around each other, drawing ever closer until they ended in a cosmic collision that sent ripples through the fabric of spacetime. On September 14, ...

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

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

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

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

A record-breaking black hole collision has stunned scientists with its sheer scale and speed. Detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observatories, the event merged two enormous black holes—each over 100 ...

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 final black hole approximately ...

LIGO changed that. Last year, the collaboration announced that its twin detectors had picked up a passing distortion in late 2015 caused by two black holes crashing into each other.

When LIGO detected gravitational waves for the first time, we were delighted, but we weren't surprised. Theorists had calculated exactly the type of LIGO-sensitive signal that should result from ...

As LIGO's sensitivity becomes better and better, and as more detectors come online, our capabilities allow us to detect more of these waves, and the cataclysmic events that generate them, ...