Gravitational-wave detectors have captured their biggest spectacle yet: two gargantuan, rapidly spinning black holes likely ...

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

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 ...

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) is no stranger to making history and breaking records. In 2015 ...

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

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

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

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

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

A short-lived ripple in space-time revealed that two black holes merged into a giant black hole with the mass of 225 suns ...