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

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

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

Researchers have observed strange goings-on around a supermassive black hole located nearly 300 million light years away.

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The team suggests that if there are small mountains on pulsars, China’s FAST (Five- hundred-meter Aperture Spherical ...

In a recently published paper in Physical Review Letters, scientists propose a comprehensive theoretical framework indicating ...

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

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