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 ...

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

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

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

One of the black holes was about 103 times the mass of the sun. The other was about 137 times it. These large black holes may have been formed by even earlier mergers, Professor Mark Hannam, from ...

Astronomers have revealed the largest black hole merger to date. This illustration shows how the merger would appear to our ...

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

A still image from a numerical simulation of a black-hole binary merger. Credit: LIGO - N. Fischer, H. Pfeiffer, A. Buonanno ...

It was a bump in the night. A big one.On Nov. 23, 2023, waves from a colossal merger of two black holes reached Earth and ...

Astroboffins spotted the aftereffects of the event on November 23, 2023, when they detected emissions from two huge black holes, each around 100 and 140 times the mass of the Sun, that collided and ...

The detection of the gravitational waves from this event, which actually occurred billions of years ago, was made by the LVK ...