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

Gravitational-wave detectors have captured their biggest spectacle yet: two gargantuan, rapidly spinning black holes likely forged by earlier smash-ups fused into a 225-solar-mass titan, GW231123. The ...

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

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

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

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

The Trump administration has called for shutting down either a Tri-Cities, WA, or Louisiana observatory that work in tandem.

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

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

A puzzling gravitational wave was detected, and astronomers have determined that it comes from a record-breaking black hole ...