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

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

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

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

Gravitational-wave detectors have captured their biggest spectacle yet: two gargantuan, rapidly spinning black holes likely forged by earlier smash-ups fused into a 225-solar-mass titan, GW231123. The ...

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

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

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

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

A group of Manitoba researchers were involved behind the scenes of an international effort that this week revealed the first ...

Learn more about LIGO, the observatory that detected two massive black holes merging, the largest in recorded history.

A physics conference has received a report of the gravitational wave from the heaviest pair of black holes we’ve so far ...