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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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