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

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

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

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

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration has announced a groundbreaking discovery in the field of gravitational wave ...

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

To date, the collaboration has detected dozens of merger events since its first Nobel Prize-winning discovery. Early detected ...

What occurs when two black holes, each greater than a hundred Suns, smash into each other in the shadows past our galaxy? In ...

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 ...

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