The new black hole has more than 200 times the mass of our sun – and is challenging theories of how objects form in space ...

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

What occurs when the universe plays a cosmic curveball, breaking down long-standing assumptions about how black holes form?

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

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

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

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

Black holes in a pair of merging galaxies, known as UGC4211, are devouring gas and dust that is "being displaced by the ...

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

Learn more about LIGO, the observatory that detected two massive black holes merging, the largest in recorded history.

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

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