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

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

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

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

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

New gravitational wave findings from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration report the discovery of the largest black hole merger ...

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

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

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

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

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 collaboration between humanity’s three gravitational wave detectors have identified a black hole merger event that created ...