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

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

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

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 ...

What occurs when the universe plays a cosmic curveball, breaking down long-standing assumptions about how black holes form?

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

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

Gravitational wave detectors have "heard" the ripples in space caused by the most massive black hole merger yet. One ...

A gravitational wave has revealed the biggest black-hole merger ever recorded—so massive and extreme, it defies current astrophysical models. The clash formed a 225-solar-mass monster, possibly made ...

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

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