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

It took less than a second for the space observatory hidden in Louisiana woods to detect a black hole that is that is ...

Gravitational-wave detectors have captured their biggest spectacle yet: two gargantuan, rapidly spinning black holes likely forged by earlier smash-ups fused into a 225-solar-mass titan, GW231123. The ...

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

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

The massive black hole has been dubbed GW231123. Its unusual size and behavior is challenging scientists' understanding of ...

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 ...

The LIGO Hanford Observatory near the Tri-Cities and its twin in Louisiana detected ripples of time and space passing through ...

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

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

The Trump administration has proposed closing either the LIGO Hanford observatory in WA or its twin in Louisiana.

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