Astrophysicists have analyzed two merging black holes; the team's best models suggest that at least one, if not both, of the ...

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

“It’s the most massive [merger] so far,” says Mark Hannam, a physicist at Cardiff University, UK, and part of the LVK ...

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

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

New gravitational wave findings from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration report the discovery of the largest black hole merger ...

What occurs when the universe plays a cosmic curveball, breaking down long-standing assumptions about how black holes form?

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

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

What occurs when two black holes, each greater than a hundred Suns, smash into each other in the shadows past our galaxy? In ...