At 225 solar masses, this gargantuan merger of two black holes challenges our thinking on these famously elusive objects.

A strophysicists have discovered the largest known merger of two black holes to form a larger single hole about 225 times the mass of the sun. The violent collision between the spinning objects, one ...

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

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

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

The future of at least one of the U.S. LIGO observatories is in jeopardy as deep cuts to science programs are proposed by the ...

Gravitational wave detectors have "heard" the ripples in space caused by the most massive black hole merger yet. One ...

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

The Trump administration has called for shutting down either a Tri-Cities, WA, or Louisiana observatory that work in tandem.

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

A puzzling gravitational wave was detected, and astronomers have determined that it comes from a record-breaking black hole ...