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

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.

Find out how these incredible astrophysical objects have influenced the formation and evolution of galaxies, and more.

Learn more about LIGO, the observatory that detected two massive black holes merging, the largest in recorded history.

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)'s LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration has detected an ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ripples in space-time signalling the largest merger of two black holes ever seen challenge current understanding of the ...