Less than a decade since the first detection of gravitational waves—ripples in spacetime itself—proposed budget cuts threaten to silence this groundbreaking science ...

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 ...

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

Long ago, in a galaxy far away, two black holes danced around each other, drawing ever closer until they ended in a cosmic collision that sent ripples through the fabric of spacetime. On September 14, ...

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 ...

Richland’s system of government gives the candidate who wins with the least votes a two-year term. That ensures at least four ...

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

Livingston Parish has been awarded $476,423 in federal funding to install nine advanced weather stations across the parish, ...

Astrophysicists have discovered the largest known merger of two black holes to form a larger single hole about 225 times the ...

The grant will create a weather network tailored to the parish and will allow for quicker and more accurate updates during ...

Damien Hauser’s Memory Of Princess Mumbi is among 10 features in competition at Giornate degli Autori, the independent ...