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, ...

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

A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...

"The biggest surprise of all was that the black hole was not located inside either of the two nuclei but in the middle. We ...

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

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

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

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" ...

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