By squeezing photons on the quantum level, the instrument ensures the particles produce fewer tiny …

It will also be the first detector to cryogenically chill its mirrors - the practice of using lique…

Scientists detected ripples in space-time from the most massive, distant space collision ever found…

However, scientists from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) experiment …

Scott's team think the ripples in spacetime from this event, also known as gravitational waves, jus…

As you wake up to see the broad day light, you might have some dilemmas in your mind. This need …

Two black holes crashed together and merged within a disk of hot matter orbiting another larger bla…

Scans of the sky using visible light, X-rays, and electromagnetic waves have been insufficient, say…

One of the notable collisions it has observed since then, unceremoniously dubbed "GW170817" and ann…

It goes like this: As neutron stars move toward each other, a tiny bit of their material gets shot …

LIGO may also eventually aid in listening to the parts of the universe that were created shortly af…

Vicky Kalogera, an astrophysicist at Northwestern University and LIGO, previously told Business Ins…

Now, that is a whopping, enormous amount of energy. To compare, theoretical physicist Luboš Motl ca…

Supermassive black holes merging in distant galaxies could be creating a background hum of gravitat…

The process, known appropriately as the rapid process (or r-process), goes like this: As the two ne…

"Einstein dismissed them because he thought they couldn't be measured, and a lot of people today st…

"Having gravitational waves as a tool will enable us to study black holes, and black holes hold the…