The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration has announced a groundbreaking discovery in the field of gravitational wave astronomy. The international research team has detected the most massive merger ...

The largest black hole collision ever recorded has scientists' jaws on the floor — and scratching their heads.

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

A theory of merger black holes or simply a mass conundrum even scientists are baffled by, could you imagine a mass so heavy ...

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

Using ripples in space-time predicted by Einstein, researchers detected a cosmic merger of unprecedented proportions. A ...

A short-lived ripple in space-time revealed that two black holes merged into a giant black hole with the mass of 225 suns ...

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

The LIGO Hanford Observatory near the Tri-Cities and its twin in Louisiana detected ripples of time and space passing through Earth from the most massive collision of black holes ever observed, a ...

“Third, as an unexpected bonus, it turns out that both galaxy nuclei also have an active supermassive black hole. So, this ...

Astronomers have detected the most massive black hole merger ever observed, challenging stellar evolution and black hole formation theories.

This artist's concept illustrates a hierarchical scheme for merging black holes. Credit LIGO/Caltech/MIT/R. Hurt (IPAC) In a breathtaking leap for astrophysics, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) ...