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

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

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

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 ...

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

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)'s LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration has detected an ...

Two colossal black holes among the most massive ever seen collided in deep space, creating gravitational waves that rippled across the cosmos and shook the foundations of astrophysical theory.

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) is no stranger to making history and breaking records. In 2015, its twin detectors based in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, ...

Astroboffins spotted the aftereffects of the event on November 23, 2023, when they detected emissions from two huge black ...

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 ...

Scientists have witnessed evidence of a collision between black holes so huge that it defies their understanding of physics.