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

Gravitational-wave detectors have captured their biggest spectacle yet: two gargantuan, rapidly spinning black holes likely ...

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

The largest black hole collision ever recorded has scientists' jaws on the floor — and scratching their heads.

A U.S. gravitational wave detector spotted a collision between fast-spinning “forbidden” black holes that challenge physics ...

The LIGO Hanford Observatory near the Tri-Cities and its twin in Louisiana detected ripples of time and space passing through ...

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

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

In 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) directly detected gravitational waves, or ripples in space-time, for the first time ever—almost exactly one century after ...

Gravitational wave detectors have "heard" the ripples in space caused by the most massive black hole merger yet. One ...

And LIGO’s second gravitational wave event, GW151226, is great for both! Essentially, on the pessimist’s side, GW151226 makes it all-but-certain that LIGO is picking up genuine gravitational ...

There are two LIGO detectors. One is in Louisiana (only 30 minutes from where I live) and the other is in Washington. Other gravitational wave detectors exist on Earth, but they were not ...