The future of at least one of the U.S. LIGO observatories is in jeopardy as deep cuts to science programs are proposed by the ...

The largest black hole collision ever recorded has scientists' jaws on the floor — and scratching their heads.

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

The new black hole has more than 200 times the mass of our sun – and is challenging theories of how objects form in space ...

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 ...

Though our solar system and the movement of its planets appear relatively sedate, there are many things that could upset the ...

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) is no stranger to making history and breaking records. In 2015 ...

Scientists detect powerful gravitational wave burst, GW231123, from black hole collision challenging theories on black hole ...