Neutron stars are ultra-dense remnants of massive stars that collapsed after supernova explosions and are made up mostly of subatomic particles with no electric charge (i.e., neutrons). When two ...

Astronomers have long known the universe is expanding—but exactly how fast remains one of the biggest mysteries in cosmology. Different techniques for measuring the Hubble constant stubbornly disagree ...

Gravitational waves may leave a permanent timing gap in light, revealing how gravity preserves information through a memory ...

The universe has delivered the loudest gravitational wave ever recorded, and it appears to have given Einstein’s theory of general relativity one of i.

India is building LIGO-India to detect gravitational waves from colliding black holes billions of light years away. How will ...

Cosmologist L Sriramkumar said gravitational waves could help scientists understand what happened just fractions of a second after the Big Bang ...

Scientists are using pulsars to detect the gravitational wave 'hum' created from supermassive black hole mergers. Credit: ...

Astrophysicists propose a new “stochastic siren” method using the gravitational-wave background from black hole mergers to ...

Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) organised open campus day to celebrate National Science Day observed on February 28 ...

In 2016, the first direct observation of gravitational waves was reported. The measurements by the LIGO detectors gave astronomers a new way to observe the Universe. Gudrun Wanner is at the Institute ...