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

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

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 ...

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

L ast month, work began on the world’s first space-based gravitational wave detector. The European Space Agency and partner ...

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

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

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

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

In 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) directly detected gravitational waves, or ripples in space-time, for the first time ever—almost exactly one century after ...

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