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

2023 年 11 月 23 日，位于美国华盛顿州汉福德和路易斯安那州利文斯顿的激光干涉引力波天文台（ LIGO，Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave ...

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

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 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.

Gravitational wave detectors have "heard" the ripples in space caused by the most massive black hole merger yet. One ...

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

In 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) directly detected gravitational waves, or ripples in space-time, for the first time ever—almost exactly one century after ...

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)'s LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration has detected an ...

On May 24, scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) began an 18-month campaign to detect the most distant collisions between black holes and neutron stars ever ...