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

Scientists are using pulsars to detect the gravitational wave 'hum' created from supermassive black hole mergers. Credit: ...

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

A new method to analyze gravitational-wave data could transform how we study some of the universe's most extreme events—black ...

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

L ast month, work began on the world’s first space-based gravitational wave detector. The European Space Agency and partner ...

Using ripples in space-time predicted by Einstein, a team of researchers has detected a cosmic merger of unprecedented ...

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

The largest black hole collision ever recorded has scientists' jaws on the floor — and scratching their heads.

The future of at least one of the U.S. LIGO observatories is in jeopardy as deep cuts to science programs are proposed by the ...

Gravitational waves, the result of two black holes merging, have been detected by a sophisticated observatory. Scientists say that proves Einstein was right.