New research published in Physical Review Letters suggests that superconducting magnets used in dark matter detection ...

This black hole merger animation was created using data collected by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors, an ...

On September 14, 2015, humanity crossed a cosmic threshold. LIGO detected gravitational waves - ripples in spacetime ...

Similar to gravitational observatories on Earth, the laser light is the crucial component of the detector. Gravitational ...

For decades, scientists have believed there should be black holes that fall between two well-known types. On one end are ...

With LISA, ESA plans to catch gravitational waves from space, using a triangle of spacecraft millions of kilometers ...

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

A senior researcher from a groundbreaking international science and engineering collaboration returned to visit his old ...

Astronomers confirm ‘lite intermediate’ black holes, too large for ordinary stars, revealing clues about early stellar ...

Researchers aim to explore hidden aspects of the universe that could fundamentally transform our understanding of the cosmos ...

The gravitational waves are one piece of the puzzle while the electromagnetic radiation is another. We want to put the puzzle pieces together." The most advanced computers.

Measuring gravitational waves — tiny, fleeting strains in space–time that are expected to be on the scale of 1 part in 10 21 or smaller — is no easy task. However, over the past five years ...