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

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 ...

What occurs when the universe plays a cosmic curveball, breaking down long-standing assumptions about how black holes form?

This is the most massive black hole binary we’ve observed through gravitational waves, and it presents a real challenge to ...

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

A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever recorded, according to new research. Gravitational waves were predicted by ...

Black hole merger sets unmatched mass record in gravitational wave histor GW231123 was detected by LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA on ...

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration has announced a groundbreaking discovery in the field of gravitational wave ...

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

The LIGO Hanford Observatory near the Tri-Cities and its twin in Louisiana detected ripples of time and space passing through Earth from the most massive collision of black holes ever observed, a ...

Astronomers have detected the most massive black hole merger ever observed, challenging stellar evolution and black hole formation theories.