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

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

The massive black hole has been dubbed GW231123. Its unusual size and behavior is challenging scientists' understanding of ...

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

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

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

“It’s the most massive [merger] so far,” says Mark Hannam, a physicist at Cardiff University, UK, and part of the LVK ...

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

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

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

Learn more about LIGO, the observatory that detected two massive black holes merging, the largest in recorded history.