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

A U.S. gravitational wave detector spotted a collision between fast-spinning “forbidden” black holes that challenge physics ...

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

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

Named GW 231123 after the date it was recorded on 23 November 2023, it's the most massive black hole collision we've seen yet ...

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

Astroboffins spotted the aftereffects of the event on November 23, 2023, when they detected emissions from two huge black holes, each around 100 and 140 times the mass of the Sun, that collided and ...

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

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 ...

Black holes this massive are forbidden through standard stellar evolution models.” And with those words, Cardiff University’s Mark Hannam, a member of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration, ...

The biggest black hole merger yet observed could confirm a rare class of black holes long thought to be missing from the universe.