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

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

What occurs when two black holes, each greater than a hundred Suns, smash into each other in the shadows past our galaxy? In a brief tenth of a second, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) in Livingston,