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

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

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

A gravitational wave has revealed the biggest black-hole merger ever recorded—so massive and extreme, it defies current ...

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

The powerful merger, designated GW231123, produced an extremely large black hole about 225 times the mass of our Sun.

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

The researchers are members of the LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA (LVK) collaboration, a global network of scientists detecting ...

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

It took less than a second for the space observatory hidden in Louisiana woods to detect a black hole that is that is ...

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

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