One of the black holes was about 103 times the mass of the sun. The other was about 137 times it. These large black holes may have been formed by even earlier mergers, Professor Mark Hannam, from ...

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

Astronomers have revealed the largest black hole merger to date. This illustration shows how the merger would appear to our ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers in Australia have developed ultra-pure lasers that reduce laser beams' linewidth by over 10,000 times, a leap that could transform quantum computing and gravitational wave detection. The ...

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

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

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