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

As NASA reports, two astronomers working with raw Webb data the space agency periodically makes available to researchers, ...

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

Two colossal black holes among the most massive ever seen collided in deep space, creating gravitational waves that rippled ...

The new black hole has more than 200 times the mass of our sun – and is challenging theories of how objects form in space ...

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

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

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) is no stranger to making history and breaking records. In 2015 ...

Astronomers have detected the signal of a colossal black hole in deep space that likely formed when two already-large black ...

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and a team of researchers have discovered an object in space they call the "Infinity" ...

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