Joseph Giaime, head of the observatory, joined Louisiana Considered to talk to us about the event’s significance, and how ...

A gravitational wave has revealed the biggest black-hole merger ever recorded—so massive and extreme, it defies current ...

The powerful merger, designated GW231123, produced an extremely large black hole about 225 times the mass of our Sun.

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

Learn more about LIGO, the observatory that detected two massive black holes merging, the largest in recorded history.

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

This is the most massive black hole binary we’ve observed through gravitational waves, and it presents a real challenge to ...

A record-breaking black hole collision has stunned scientists with its sheer scale and speed. Detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observatories, the event merged two enormous black holes—each over 100 ...

A collaboration between humanity’s three gravitational wave detectors have identified a black hole merger event that created ...

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration has announced a groundbreaking discovery in the field of gravitational wave ...

Gravitational-wave detectors have captured their biggest spectacle yet: two gargantuan, rapidly spinning black holes likely forged by earlier smash-ups fused into a 225-solar-mass titan, GW231123. The ...