At cosmological scales, Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has given scientists an immensely accurate blueprint ...

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

Scientists have detected the most massive merger of two black holes ever recorded for the first time in history.

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

To date, the collaboration has detected dozens of merger events since its first Nobel Prize-winning discovery. Early detected mergers involved either two black holes or two neutron stars. In 2021, ...

The black holes – one roughly 140 times the mass of the Sun and the other about 100 solar masses – fused into one pit of ...

Black holes are among the most enigmatic and fascinating objects in the universe. Their sheer existence challenges our understanding of the cosmos and raises deep questions about the nature of reality ...

The event is the most massive black hole merger ever recorded by gravitational wave detectors and has forced physicists to ...

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

According to research presented at the 24th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation and the 16th ...

Collaboration has detected the merger of the most massive black holes ever observed with gravitational waves using the LIGO ...

Collaboration has made a groundbreaking discovery by detecting the merger of the most massive black holes ever observed. The ...