Gravitational waves from an apparent collision of two neutron stars may have been spotted for the second time in scientific history. When two neutron stars spiral together, they undergo a violent ...

Putting the squeeze on light improves gravitational wave observatories. An upgrade to one such observatory, LIGO, that comes from exploiting a quantum rule known as the Heisenberg uncertainty ...

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO, has already won its researchers a Nobel Prize — and now artificial intelligence is poised to take LIGO’s search for cosmic collisions ...

In a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the international LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration reports on the detection of two gravitational wave events in October and November of 2024 ...

Talk about epic. A collision of two black holes is so extreme that it’s challenging physics theories of how large black holes form and merge. The two black holes had masses bigger than any before ...

A record-breaking black hole smash-up just expanded our view of the universe’s most extreme inhabitants. Is our cosmos just a membrane on the edge of a far stranger reality? These black holes’ masses ...

Ten years after LIGO’s historical detection of gravitational waves, the project is cracking black hole mysteries at an astounding pace. Reading time: Reading time 4 minutes LIGO’s discovery of ...

Louisiana is known for many things — music, arts, culture, food. But chances are that, outside a highly specialized community, it is not recognized as a hub of physics experimentation.Yet that’s ...

After a three-year hiatus made longer by pandemic troubles, the search for gravitational waves — ripples in space-time that are the hallmarks of colliding black holes and other cosmic cataclysms — has ...

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) has seen over 300 black hole mergers in its short time in operation, and now it’s seen an event so large—and so rare—that it challenges ...

Researchers have demonstrated a new, unsupervised machine learning approach to find new patterns in the auxiliary channel data of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. Finding ...

Physicist who won a Nobel Prize for LIGO Hanford observatory in Eastern WA died. LIGO confirmed Einstein’s theory of relativity by detecting gravitational waves in 2015. Twin LIGO sites in WA and LA ...