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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

One of the black holes was about 103 times the mass of the sun. The other was about 137 times it. These large black holes may have been formed by even earlier mergers, Professor Mark Hannam, from ...