At cosmological scales, Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has given scientists an immensely accurate blueprint ...

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

The black holes – one roughly 140 times the mass of the Sun and the other about 100 solar masses – fused into one pit of ...

Scientists have detected the most massive merger of two black holes ever recorded for the first time in history.

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

Gravitational waves spotted by LIGO reveal two black holes, 140 and 100 times the mass of the sun, merged to become a 225 solar mass behemoth.

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

The event is the most massive black hole merger ever recorded by gravitational wave detectors and has forced physicists to ...

To date, the collaboration has detected dozens of merger events since its first Nobel Prize-winning discovery. Early detected mergers involved either two black holes or two neutron stars. In 2021, ...

Black holes are among the most enigmatic and fascinating objects in the universe. Their sheer existence challenges our understanding of the cosmos and raises deep questions about the nature of reality ...

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

Collaboration has made a groundbreaking discovery by detecting the merger of the most massive black holes ever observed. The ...