L ast month, work began on the world’s first space-based gravitational wave detector. The European Space Agency and partner aerospace companies are developing orbiting, detector spacecraft to observe ...

A collaboration between humanity’s three gravitational wave detectors have identified a black hole merger event that created ...

The Trump administration has proposed closing either the LIGO Hanford observatory in WA or its twin in Louisiana.

A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...

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

Astronomers have detected the signal of a colossal black hole in deep space that likely formed when two already-large black ...

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 only place that's likely to happen is at the very center of our galaxy. And, for a while, there was an excess of ...

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 ...

The biggest black hole merger yet observed could confirm a rare class of black holes long thought to be missing from the universe.

The new black hole has more than 200 times the mass of our sun – and is challenging theories of how objects form in space ...