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

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

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 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 ...

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

Gravitational waves, the result of two black holes merging, have been detected by a sophisticated observatory. Scientists say that proves Einstein was right.

The waves in Wednesday's announcement traveled for 1.4 billion years before they reached Earth late last year and set off detectors at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO ...