For centuries, the primary way that astronomers studied outer space was through sight. But just ten years ago, scientists ...

Since that day, LIGO — composed of two highly sensitive laser interferometers located in Hanford, Washington and Livingston, ...

Ten years ago, scientists heard the universe rumble for the first time. That first discovery of gravitational waves proved a ...

Ten years after scientists first detected gravitational waves emerging from two colliding black holes, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA ...

The observatory is one of two in the United States funded by the National Science Foundation with its counterpart, LIGO ...

For the first time, astrophysicists have measured the recoil resulting from the birth of a new black hole that formed from ...

When LIGO detected gravitational waves unleashed from two colliding black holes for the first time in science history, it set ...

Ten years ago, astronomers made history when they first detected ripples in spacetime, called gravitational waves, from the ...

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

"GW250114 is the loudest gravitational wave event we have detected to date; it was like a whisper becoming a shout." ...

An exceptionally loud collision between two black holes has been detected by the LIGO gravitational wave observatory, ...

For the first time, scientists measured a newborn black hole that "kicked" off into space after 2 larger black holes merged together.