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

Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and a team of researchers have discovered an object in space they call the "Infinity" ...

A U.S. gravitational wave detector spotted a collision between fast-spinning “forbidden” black holes that challenge physics ...

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

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

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

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

Gravitational-wave detectors have captured their biggest spectacle yet: two gargantuan, rapidly spinning black holes likely ...

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

A collaboration between humanity’s three gravitational wave detectors have identified a black hole merger event that created ...

Named GW 231123 after the date it was recorded on 23 November 2023, it's the most massive black hole collision we've seen yet ...

Astronomers using JWST and other telescopes found a supermassive black hole floating between two colliding galaxies — not in ...