In October 2024 the network detected a clear signal that pointed back to a merger that occurred 700 million light-years away. The progenitor black holes were 20 and 6 solar masses and the larger ...

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

A Skelmorlie artist has presented two new paintings to the University of Glasgow to celebrate the part the institution has ...

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.

Physicists have analyzed two enormous black hole mergers that happened one month apart and have come up with tantalizing ...

Astronomers have detected two extraordinary gravitational wave events that may have come from black holes formed in earlier ...

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 ...

Theoretical physicist Alex Lupsasca is pushing for a space telescope to glimpse the thin ring of light that is thought to surround every black hole.

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

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

The international LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration reports the observations of two record-breaking events in gravitational wave ...