The proposed next generation of gravitational wave detectors will require hundreds of kilometers of ultrahigh vacuum beam ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

Scientists are using pulsars to detect the gravitational wave 'hum' created from supermassive black hole mergers. Credit: National Science Foundation (NSF) ...

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

Researchers from the University of Glasgow teamed up with the culture and research organisation Science Ceilidh to develop a dance to mark the 10th anniversary of the historic first detection of ...

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

With LISA, ESA plans to catch gravitational waves from space, using a triangle of spacecraft millions of kilometers apart—unlocking cosmic secrets we’ve never seen.

Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...

Black holes, once purely theoretical, are now observable phenomena, offering insights into the universe. Their intense ...

For decades, scientists have believed there should be black holes that fall between two well-known types. On one end are stellar-mass black holes, formed by collapsing stars, with masses between 5 ...

In July 1995, a historic heat wave left more than 700 people dead. ABC7 is looking back on how the tragedy changed the way ...

An artist's impression of the UK-led CosmoCube spacecraft, which would orbit be tasked with listening out for an "ancient ...