The researchers are members of the LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA (LVK) collaboration, a global network of scientists detecting ...

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

Joseph Giaime, head of the observatory, joined Louisiana Considered to talk to us about the event’s significance, and how ...

A gravitational wave has revealed the biggest black-hole merger ever recorded—so massive and extreme, it defies current ...

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 ...

Collaboration has detected the merger of the most massive black holes ever observed with gravitational waves using the LIGO ...

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

The powerful merger, designated GW231123, produced an extremely large black hole about 225 times the mass of our Sun.

A record-breaking black hole collision has stunned scientists with its sheer scale and speed. Detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observatories, the event merged two enormous black holes—each over 100 ...

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

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