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

Professor Mark Hannam stated, 'These are the largest black holes we have confidently measured using gravitational waves.' ...

To date, the collaboration has detected dozens of merger events since its first Nobel Prize-winning discovery. Early detected ...

Gravitational-wave detectors have captured their biggest spectacle yet: two gargantuan, rapidly spinning black holes likely ...

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

It was a bump in the night. A big one.On Nov. 23, 2023, waves from a colossal merger of two black holes reached Earth and ...

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

The detection of the gravitational waves from this event, which actually occurred billions of years ago, was made by the LVK ...

Collaboration has made a groundbreaking discovery by detecting the merger of the most massive black holes ever observed. The ...

The KAGRA observatory in Japan will also join the next full observing run. Located deep under a mountain, KAGRA completed a successful first observing run in 2020 but has yet to join LIGO and Virgo in ...

KAGRA consists of two 3-kilometer-long arms, arranged in an “L” shape. Within each arm, laser light bounces back and forth between two mirrors located at both ends.