Scientists are using pulsars to detect the gravitational wave 'hum' created from supermassive black hole mergers. Credit: ...

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

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

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

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 ...

L ast month, work began on the world’s first space-based gravitational wave detector. The European Space Agency and partner ...

Using ripples in space-time predicted by Einstein, a team of researchers has detected a cosmic merger of unprecedented ...

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

Gravitational waves, the result of two black holes merging, have been detected by a sophisticated observatory. Scientists say that proves Einstein was right.