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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

The merger wasn’t just the biggest ever, but also an event so rare that it challenges existing models for black hole genesis.

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

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

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

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