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

A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...

Joseph Giaime, head of the observatory, joined Louisiana Considered to talk to us about the event’s significance, and how ...

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

“It’s the most massive [merger] so far,” says Mark Hannam, a physicist at Cardiff University, UK, and part of the LVK ...

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

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

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

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

The new black hole has more than 200 times the mass of our sun – and is challenging theories of how objects form in space ...

At 225 solar masses, this gargantuan merger of two black holes challenges our thinking on these famously elusive objects.

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