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

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

A group of Manitoba researchers were involved behind the scenes of an international effort that this week revealed the first ...

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

Astrophysicists have analyzed two merging black holes; the team's best models suggest that at least one, if not both, of the ...

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

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

There are two LIGO detectors. One is in Louisiana (only 30 minutes from where I live) and the other is in Washington. Other gravitational wave detectors exist on Earth, but they were not ...

And LIGO’s second gravitational wave event, GW151226, is great for both! Essentially, on the pessimist’s side, GW151226 makes it all-but-certain that LIGO is picking up genuine gravitational ...

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

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

May 24 marked the start of O4, the latest gravitational-wave hunting effort of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration. But only LIGO is fully operational right now.