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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A strophysicists have discovered the largest known merger of two black holes to form a larger single hole about 225 times the mass of the sun. The violent collision between the spinning objects, one ...

A U.S. gravitational wave detector spotted a collision between fast-spinning “forbidden” black holes that challenge physics ...

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