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

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

Collaboration has detected the merger of the most massive black holes ever observed with gravitational waves using the LIGO ...

A record-breaking black hole collision has stunned scientists with its sheer scale and speed. Detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observatories, the event merged two enormous black holes—each over 100 ...

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

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

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

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

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

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)'s LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration has detected an ...