Joseph Giaime, head of the observatory, joined Louisiana Considered to talk to us about the event’s significance, and how ...

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

To study this merger, scientists had to use advanced models that account for how fast-spinning black holes behave—a ...

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

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

SCIENTISTS have discovered the biggest black hole merger ever recorded, as two massive spacetime ripples spiral into each other. The monstrous collision occurred on the outskirts of our Milky ...

Astronomers have detected the most massive black hole merger ever observed, challenging stellar evolution and black hole ...

Scientists have made a terrifying discovery: two black holes are on a collision course, set to merge into a massive hole that ...

At 225 solar masses, this gargantuan merger of two black holes challenges our thinking on these famously elusive objects.

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

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This time, the merger of two lower mass black holes, of 14 and 8 solar masses, inspiraling and coalescing together, left a signal of 27 orbits spanning more than a second in both twin LIGO ...