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

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

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

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

The largest black hole collision ever recorded has scientists' jaws on the floor — and scratching their heads.

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

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

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

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

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

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