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

Scientists are using pulsars to detect the gravitational wave 'hum' created from supermassive black hole mergers. Credit: ...

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

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

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

A new method to analyze gravitational-wave data could transform how we study some of the universe's most extreme events—black ...

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

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 ...

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 ...