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 gravitational waves.

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

L ast month, work began on the world’s first space-based gravitational wave detector. The European Space Agency and partner ...

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

A physics conference has received a report of the gravitational wave from the heaviest pair of black holes we’ve so far ...

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 ...

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