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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Scientists say the two black holes merged after colliding at speeds near the limit allowed by Albert Einstein’s theory of ...

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.