Astronomers have revealed the largest black hole merger to date. This illustration shows how the merger would appear to our ...

Black holes this massive are forbidden through standard stellar evolution models.” And with those words, Cardiff University’s Mark Hannam, a member of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration, ...

It was a bump in the night. A big one.On Nov. 23, 2023, waves from a colossal merger of two black holes reached Earth and ...

The detection of the gravitational waves from this event, which actually occurred billions of years ago, was made by the LVK ...

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

Gravitational waves spotted by LIGO reveal two black holes, 140 and 100 times the mass of the sun, merged to become a 225 solar mass behemoth.

New gravitational wave findings from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration report the discovery of the largest black hole merger ...

Scientists have witnessed evidence of a collision between black holes so huge that it defies their understanding of physics.

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

In summer, we face toward the Milky Way's hub in the Teapot constellation, home to the galaxy's supermassive black hole.

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

ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its ...