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

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

Astronomers have detected the largest black hole merger ever, and it has challenged their understanding of such formations.

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

A short-lived ripple in space-time revealed that two black holes merged into a giant black hole with the mass of 225 suns ...

What occurs when two black holes, each greater than a hundred Suns, smash into each other in the shadows past our galaxy? In ...

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)'s LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration has detected an ...

The LIGO Hanford Observatory near the Tri-Cities and its twin in Louisiana detected ripples of time and space passing through Earth from the most massive collision of black holes ever observed, a ...

Gravity is normal on Earth, but out there it plays a deeper role. If a cosmic body is massive enough, it could bend the ...

Astronomers have detected the most massive black hole merger ever observed, challenging stellar evolution and black hole formation theories.

At a water park, you rarely see kids taking selfies or filming their adventures on their smartphones. To me, they didn't even seem to take notice of the many shades and races and countries of origin ...

"The biggest surprise of all was that the black hole was not located inside either of the two nuclei but in the middle. We asked ourselves: How can we make sense of this?" ...