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

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

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

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 ...

Physicists call such ripples gravitational waves. Gravitational waves were predicted by Albert Einstein in 1915 as part of his theory of relativity, but he thought they were too weak to ever ...

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 ...

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

One of the three main surveys that will be run by the Nancy Grace Roman space telescope will likely catch 100,000 cosmic ...

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

Everything about the Infinity Galaxy, recently discovered by the JWST, is strange. One odd feature could be the 1st evidence ...

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

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