A new method to analyze gravitational-wave data could transform how we study some of the universe's most extreme events—black ...

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

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

“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 ...

The proposed next generation of gravitational wave detectors will require hundreds of kilometers of ultrahigh vacuum beam ...

The most massive black holes ever observed with gravitational waves have been detected by the LIGO Hanford and Livingston ...

A physics conference has received a report of the gravitational wave from the heaviest pair of black holes we’ve so far ...

A still image from a numerical simulation of a black-hole binary merger. Credit: LIGO - N. Fischer, H. Pfeiffer, A. Buonanno ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

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

Merger creates black holes weighing 240 times the mass of our Sun — the heaviest binary black hole system confirmed through ...