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 ...

Astronomers have detected the signal of a colossal black hole in deep space that likely formed when two already-large black ...

The LIGO Hanford Observatory near the Tri-Cities and its twin in Louisiana detected ripples of time and space passing through ...

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

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

The new black hole has more than 200 times the mass of our sun – and is challenging theories of how objects form in space ...

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

Black holes are some of the most mysterious and intriguing objects in our universe, and the idea that one might be nearby ...

The event is the most massive black hole merger ever recorded by gravitational wave detectors and has forced physicists to ...

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

The Trump administration has proposed closing either the LIGO Hanford observatory in WA or its twin in Louisiana.

Ripples in space-time signalling the largest merger of two black holes ever seen challenge current understanding of the ...