For the first time, scientists have detected two black hole mergers with spins so unusual they may reveal a new generation of ...

In a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the international LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration reports on the ...

The findings confirm the presence of rare binary systems and suggest certain black holes are second-generation, forged in ...

A century after Albert Einstein rewrote our understanding of space and time, physicists have confirmed one of the most elusive predictions of his general theory of relativity. In another galaxy, a ...

For 13 years, the scientists of LIGO—the most ambitious, and expensive, project in the history of the National Science Foundation—had been waiting. LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave ...

In October, LIGO’s discovery of gravitational waves from two colliding black holes won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics. But three decades ago, it was a controversial project (even among the scientific ...

On September 14, 2015, a signal arrived on Earth, carrying information about a pair of remote black holes that had spiraled together and merged. The signal had traveled about 1.3 billion years to ...

You can't see them, but they're there. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory ...

The black holes that produced the first detected gravitational waves may have exotic origins in the early universe. When the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, LIGO, ...

Certain detection of gravitational waves requires at least two detectors located at widely separated sites. Regional phenomena such as micro-earthquakes, acoustic noise, and laser fluctuations can ...

LIGO detected gravitational waves created from the collision between two black holes. The detection was awesome, but let's look at the name of the detector for a second: Laser Interferometer ...