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

A new method to analyze gravitational-wave data could transform how we study some of the universe's most extreme events—black ...

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

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

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.

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

Gravitational-wave detectors have captured their biggest spectacle yet: two gargantuan, rapidly spinning black holes likely ...

The detection of gravitational waves from this event has generated a lot of scientific interest. It has the potential to ...

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

Gravitational waves are unlocking the secrets of the universe, and scientists have just made a groundbreaking discovery.