The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration has announced a groundbreaking discovery in the field of gravitational wave astronomy. The international research team has detected the most massive merger ...

Gravity is normal on Earth, but out there it plays a deeper role. If a cosmic body is massive enough, it could bend the ...

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

The detection of gravitational waves from this event has generated a lot of scientific interest. It has the potential to ...

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.

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

The LIGO Hanford Observatory near the Tri-Cities and its twin in Louisiana detected ripples of time and space passing through Earth from the most massive collision of black holes ever observed, a ...

"The biggest surprise of all was that the black hole was not located inside either of the two nuclei but in the middle. We asked ourselves: How can we make sense of this?" ...

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

This artist's concept illustrates a hierarchical scheme for merging black holes. Credit LIGO/Caltech/MIT/R. Hurt (IPAC) In a breathtaking leap for astrophysics, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) ...

A collaboration between humanity’s three gravitational wave detectors have identified a black hole merger event that created ...