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

To study this merger, scientists had to use advanced models that account for how fast-spinning black holes behave—a ...

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 ...

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

Today on Louisiana Considered, we hear how law enforcement officers that don’t comply with immigration authorities could face ...

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

A gravitational wave has revealed the biggest black-hole merger ever recorded—so massive and extreme, it defies current ...

The most massive black hole merger to date was detected at a Washington state observatory, producing a black hole about 225 ...

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

As NASA reports, two astronomers working with raw Webb data the space agency periodically makes available to researchers, ...

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

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