Gravitational-wave detectors have captured their biggest spectacle yet: two gargantuan, rapidly spinning black holes likely ...

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

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

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

The biggest black hole merger yet observed could confirm a rare class of black holes long thought to be missing from the universe.

Named GW 231123 after the date it was recorded on 23 November 2023, it's the most massive black hole collision we've seen yet, resulting in an object heavier than 225 Suns. Previously, the most ...

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

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

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

New gravitational wave findings from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration report the discovery of the largest black hole merger ...

To date, the collaboration has detected dozens of merger events since its first Nobel Prize-winning discovery. Early detected ...

Professor Mark Hannam stated, 'These are the largest black holes we have confidently measured using gravitational waves.' ...