Gravitational-wave detectors have captured their biggest spectacle yet: two gargantuan, rapidly spinning black holes likely forged by earlier smash-ups fused into a 225-solar-mass titan, GW231123. The ...

At 225 solar masses, this gargantuan merger of two black holes challenges our thinking on these famously elusive objects.

The LIGO Hanford Observatory near the Tri-Cities and its twin in Louisiana detected ripples of time and space passing through ...

The Trump administration has called for shutting down either a Tri-Cities, WA, or Louisiana observatory that work in tandem.

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

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

A short-lived ripple in space-time revealed that two black holes merged into a giant black hole with the mass of 225 suns ...

An international team of physicists discovered the largest-ever merger of 2 black holes through a phenomenon known as ...

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

The merger wasn’t just the biggest ever, but also an event so rare that it challenges existing models for black hole genesis.