At 225 solar masses, this gargantuan merger of two black holes challenges our thinking on these famously elusive objects.

A strophysicists have discovered the largest known merger of two black holes to form a larger single hole about 225 times the mass of the sun. The violent collision between the spinning objects, one ...

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

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

The future of at least one of the U.S. LIGO observatories is in jeopardy as deep cuts to science programs are proposed by the ...

Astrophysicists have analyzed two merging black holes; the team's best models suggest that at least one, if not both, of the ...

The powerful merger, designated GW231123, produced an extremely large black hole about 225 times the mass of our Sun.

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

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

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

It took less than a second for the space observatory hidden in Louisiana woods to detect a black hole that is that is ...