Researchers have spent 10 years improving the massive detectors they use to catch shockwaves from colliding black holes, and ...

Scientists have confirmed century-old predictions by Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking after observing two black holes ...

Black holes get bigger as they merge, the LIGO Collaboration confirmed with a new observation that could finally prove a ...

An exceptionally loud collision between two black holes has been detected by the LIGO gravitational wave observatory, ...

Ten years after the first gravitational wave detection, a new suite of instruments has captured ringing signals before and ...

This achievement not only continues the project's series of "milestone discoveries" but also verifies the black hole area ...

Ten years after LIGO’s historical detection of gravitational waves, the project is cracking black hole mysteries at an ...

Astronomers detected in unprecedented detail a collision between two black holes. Their observations confirm predictions made ...

A breakthrough in black hole physics has confirmed Stephen Hawking’s 1972 “area law,” which states that the event horizon of ...

The formation of black holes is typically closely related to the collapse of massive stars, which are among the heaviest entities in the universe. However, in 1970, Hawking proposed another ...

Scientists have confirmed two long-standing theories relating to black holes—thanks to the detection of the most clearly ...

A decade ago, scientists first detected ripples in the fabric of space-time, called gravitational waves, from the collision ...