A new method to analyze gravitational-wave data could transform how we study some of the universe's most extreme events—black ...

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

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

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

Two colossal black holes among the most massive ever seen collided in deep space, creating gravitational waves that rippled ...

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

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 ...

Gravitational-wave detectors have captured their biggest spectacle yet: two gargantuan, rapidly spinning black holes likely forged by earlier smash-ups fused into a 225-solar-mass titan, GW231123. The ...

The LIGO Hanford Observatory near the Tri-Cities and its twin in Louisiana detected ripples of time and space passing through ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

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

Scientists say the two black holes merged after colliding at speeds near the limit allowed by Albert Einstein’s theory of ...