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

The pair merged to create a single hole about 225 times the mass of the sun.

Supermassive black holes spiral towards each other in this simulation created by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center that ...

The largest merger of two black holes ever recorded has been detected by astronomers. The collision of the pair, each more ...

The merger resulted in a combined black hole 225 times our sun’s mass, and challenges current astrophysical models of black ...

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

The researchers are members of the LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA (LVK) collaboration, a global network of scientists detecting ...

A record-breaking black hole collision has stunned scientists with its sheer scale and speed. Detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observatories, the event merged two enormous black holes—each over 100 ...

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

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

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To study this merger, scientists had to use advanced models that account for how fast-spinning black holes behave—a ...