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

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

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

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

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

New gravitational wave findings from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration report the discovery of the largest black hole merger ...

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

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

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

Astronomers have detected the largest black hole merger ever, and it has challenged their understanding of such formations.

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

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