Researchers have built a small but powerful detector to find gravitational waves in a hidden frequency range. The discovery ...
Pulsars could be helping scientists distinguish between gravitational waves caused by supermassive black hole collisions and ...
UW-Milwaukee physics and astronomy assistant professor Lia Medeiros explains gravitational waves and the role UWM played in discovering them.
A network of optical cavities could be used to detect gravitational waves (GWs) in an unexplored range of frequencies, ...
An exceptionally loud collision between two black holes has been detected by the LIGO gravitational wave observatory, ...
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) could potentially detect gravitational waves from an alien spacecraft as it makes its way through our galaxy, according to a team of ...
In 2019, LIGO and Virgo recorded something truly bizarre – a gravitational wave event less than a tenth of a second in duration.
A strange chirp detected by LIGO in 2019 has some scientists searching for answers beyond a simple black hole merger.
In a distant stretch of the universe, more than 10 billion light-years from Earth, astronomers have discovered something ...
Ten years ago today, on Sept. 14, physicists detected gravitational waves rippling through the cosmos for the first time. The roots of this discovery date back a century. Albert Einstein's general ...
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