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

Scientists have observed the largest black hole merger ever detected, marking a historic breakthrough in astrophysics. The ...

Once again, gravitational waves have been observed whose origin should not actually exist: a collision of black holes with "forbidden" mass.

Scientists have detected the most massive merger of two black holes ever recorded for the first time in history.

The black holes – one roughly 140 times the mass of the Sun and the other about 100 solar masses – fused into one pit of ...

Gravitational waves from most massive black hole collision ever observed challenge existing theories, as scientists suspect ...

Astronomers have recorded gravitational waves from the largest ever black hole collision detected. Two behemoths merged in a ...

Scientists have detected the collision of two massive black holes merging beyond the Milky Way. The two black holes, each ...

This colossal collision, which occurred about 10 billion light-years from Earth, was detected in November 2023 by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors located in ...

One of LIGO’s four 40-kg mirrors cooled during the experiment. Together, these mirrors form a mechanical oscillator of 10-kg — which the team cooled down in their experiment.

Patrick Brady, Professor of Physics at UW-Milwaukee, talks about LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, which observed and measured the gravitational waves created by a ...

The event is the most massive black hole merger ever recorded by gravitational wave detectors and has forced physicists to ...