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.

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

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration has announced a groundbreaking discovery in the field of gravitational wave ...

Astronomers have detected GW231123, a record-breaking black hole merger involving two black holes with masses exceeding 100 ...

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

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 ...

Physicists call such ripples gravitational waves. Gravitational waves were predicted by Albert Einstein in 1915 as part of his theory of relativity, but he thought they were too weak to ever ...

An international team of physicists uncovered the behemoth by detecting ripples in space-time from the violent collision.

Using the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Gemini North telescope in Hawaii, astronomers have captured the first detailed image of our third known cosmic interloper.

The Perseid meteor shower is one of three that will be lighting up the summer night sky beginning in July. But it won't reach its peak until August.