Learn more about LIGO, the observatory that detected two massive black holes merging, the largest in recorded history.

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

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

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

The LIGO Hanford Observatory near the Tri-Cities and its twin in Louisiana detected ripples of time and space passing through ...

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

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

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

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)'s LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration has detected an ...

Scientists have detected the largest black hole collision ever observed, resulting in a colossal binary black hole 240 times ...

Astronomers have detected the largest black hole merger ever, and it has challenged their understanding of such formations.