Previously, the largest known black hole that came from a merger was about 140 times the mass of the sun. GW231123's discovery is also opening doors for new avenues of research, astronomers said.

When black holes need a place to crash, they prefer a nice, bright quasar.

An international team of physicists discovered the largest-ever merger of 2 black holes through a phenomenon known as gravitational waves.

(CN) — An international team of scientists detected two massive black holes that merged to produce one colossal black hole some 225 times the mass of the sun, according to research presented at a ...

Gravitational waves detected at LIGO Hanford Observatory in Washington reveal a puzzling black hole merger, the heaviest detected. Trump calls for LIGO closure.

Using ripples in space-time predicted by Einstein, a team of researchers has detected a cosmic merger of unprecedented proportions.

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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever recorded, according to new research. A ...

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration has detected the merger of the most massive black holes ever observed with gravitational waves using the US National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded LIGO ...