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

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

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

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

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

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