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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Astronomers have detected the signal of a colossal black hole in deep space that likely formed when two already-large black ...

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

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

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