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 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 ...

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

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

Two colossal black holes among the most massive ever seen collided in deep space, creating gravitational waves that rippled ...

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

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

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 ...