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

The massive black hole has been dubbed GW231123. Its unusual size and behavior is challenging scientists' understanding of ...

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

“It’s the most massive [merger] so far,” says Mark Hannam, a physicist at Cardiff University, UK, and part of the LVK ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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