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

Collaboration has detected the merger of the most massive black holes ever observed with gravitational waves, using the US ...

To date, the collaboration has detected dozens of merger events since its first Nobel Prize-winning discovery. Early detected ...

New gravitational wave findings from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration report the discovery of the largest black hole merger ...

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

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) is no stranger to making history and breaking records. In 2015 ...

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

A puzzling gravitational wave was detected, and astronomers have determined that it comes from a record-breaking black hole ...

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

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 ...

Black holes this massive are forbidden through standard stellar evolution models.” And with those words, Cardiff University’s Mark Hannam, a member of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration, ...