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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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