Less than a decade since the first detection of gravitational waves—ripples in spacetime itself—proposed budget cuts threaten ...

Long ago, in a galaxy far away, two black holes danced around each other, drawing ever closer until they ended in a cosmic collision that sent ripples through the fabric of spacetime. On September 14, ...

A record-breaking black hole collision has stunned scientists with its sheer scale and speed. Detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observatories, the event merged two enormous black holes—each over 100 ...

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

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

A group of Manitoba researchers were involved behind the scenes of an international effort that this week revealed the first ...

The researchers are members of the LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA (LVK) collaboration, a global network of scientists detecting ...

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

The phenomenon is a key to galaxy formation. When galaxies collide, their central supermassive black holes often merge, ...

The merger resulted in a combined black hole 225 times our sun’s mass, and challenges current astrophysical models of black ...

Astrophysicists have discovered the largest known merger of two black holes to form a larger single hole about 225 times the ...

Livingston Parish has been awarded $476,423 in federal funding to install nine advanced weather stations across the parish, ...