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

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

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

The new black hole has more than 200 times the mass of our sun – and is challenging theories of how objects form in space ...

Astrophysicists have analyzed two merging black holes; the team's best models suggest that at least one, if not both, of the ...

A group of Manitoba researchers were involved behind the scenes of an international effort that this week revealed how two ...

To date, the collaboration has detected dozens of merger events since its first Nobel Prize-winning discovery. Early detected ...

Astronomers have detected the signal of a colossal black hole in deep space that likely formed when two already-large black ...

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

Two colossal black holes among the most massive ever seen collided in deep space, creating gravitational waves that rippled ...

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

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