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

The future of at least one of the U.S. LIGO observatories is in jeopardy as deep cuts to science programs are proposed by the ...

As NASA reports, two astronomers working with raw Webb data the space agency periodically makes available to researchers, ...

Using ripples in space-time predicted by Einstein, a team of researchers has detected a cosmic merger of unprecedented ...

Two colossal black holes among the most massive ever seen collided in deep space, creating gravitational waves that rippled ...

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

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

Astronomers have detected the signal of a colossal black hole in deep space that likely formed when two already-large black ...

Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and a team of researchers have discovered an object in space they call the "Infinity" ...

A new method to analyze gravitational-wave data could transform how we study some of the universe's most extreme events—black ...

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

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