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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Trump administration has called for shutting down either a Tri-Cities, WA, or Louisiana observatory that work in tandem.

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

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 ...

A physics conference has received a report of the gravitational wave from the heaviest pair of black holes we’ve so far ...

It took less than a second for the space observatory hidden in Louisiana woods to detect a black hole that is that is ...