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 ...

Using ripples in space-time predicted by Einstein, a team of researchers has detected a cosmic merger of unprecedented ...

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

The largest black hole collision ever recorded has scientists' jaws on the floor — and scratching their heads.

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

Astronomers have detected the signal of a colossal black hole in deep space that likely formed when two already-large black ...

Named GW 231123 after the date it was recorded on 23 November 2023, it's the most massive black hole collision we've seen yet ...

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

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

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

The powerful merger, designated GW231123, produced an extremely large black hole about 225 times the mass of our Sun.