At 225 solar masses, this gargantuan merger of two black holes challenges our thinking on these famously elusive objects.

A group of Manitoba researchers were involved behind the scenes of an international effort that this week revealed how two ...

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

Astrophysicists have analyzed two merging black holes; the team's best models suggest that at least one, if not both, of the ...

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

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 ...

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

Two colossal black holes among the most massive ever seen collided in deep space, creating gravitational waves that rippled ...

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

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

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 ...