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 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.

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

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)'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 ...

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

An international team of physicists uncovered the behemoth by detecting ripples in space-time from the violent collision.

The detection of gravitational waves from this event has generated a lot of scientific interest. It has the potential to ...