Researchers detect the clearest black hole signal to date, enabling tests of Hawking's area theorem and advancing ...

Twin black hole collisions detected in 2024 have provided the sharpest-ever test of Einstein’s theory while revealing new details about how black holes form and spin.

For the first time, scientists have detected two black hole mergers with spins so unusual they may reveal a new generation of ...

For the first time, scientists have heard the haunting ‘cry’ of two newborn black holes — a sound born from one of the ...

Two recently observed black hole mergers, occurring just weeks apart in late 2024, have opened an extraordinary new window ...

The symphonies registered by the wave detectors were produced during the collision that created the black holes, according to ...

Two gravitational wave signals explain why the heavier black holes of the causal pairs did not originate in a stellar ...

New results from an international team including UBC astrophysicists highlight the first black hole observed to be spinning ...

LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA detects two black hole mergers with rare spin patterns, offering evidence for hierarchical formation and ...

A pair of distant black hole mergers, measured just one month apart in late 2024, are improving how scientists understand the ...

One week ago, National Science Foundation Director Rita Colwell spoke at the inauguration of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) facility in Livingston, Louisiana. LIGO’s ...