Gravitational-wave detectors have captured their biggest spectacle yet: two gargantuan, rapidly spinning black holes likely forged by earlier smash-ups fused into a 225-solar-mass titan, GW231123. The ...

Joseph Giaime, head of the observatory, joined Louisiana Considered to talk to us about the event’s significance, and how ...

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

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

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.

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

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

A puzzling gravitational wave was detected, and astronomers have determined that it comes from a record-breaking black hole ...