Researchers have built a small but powerful detector to find gravitational waves in a hidden frequency range. The discovery ...

UW-Milwaukee physics and astronomy assistant professor Lia Medeiros explains gravitational waves and the role UWM played in discovering them.

Pulsars suggest that ultra–low-frequency gravitational waves are rippling through the cosmos. The signal seen by ...

Pulsars could be helping scientists distinguish between gravitational waves caused by supermassive black hole collisions and ...

Researchers have designed a new type of gravitational wave detector that operates in the milli-Hertz range, a region ...

Scientists have unveiled a new approach to detecting gravitational waves in the milli-Hertz frequency range, providing access to astrophysical and cosmological phenomena that are not detectable with ...

In a discovery that began generating excitement on social media before it was even announced, scientists have detected rippling gravitational waves more powerful than any identified before. The news ...

Physicists proposed “beat” patterns in pulsar timing can reveal nanohertz gravitational wave sources, including supermassive ...

In 2023, physicists were awed to find nearly imperceptible ripples in the fabric of space and time — united as an entity known as spacetime. They were ripples discovered in association with ...

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

EVANSTON, Ill. (CBS) -- A Northwestern University astrophysicist is part of an international team of scientists creating a gravitational wave detector system that will eventually be launched into ...

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