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

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A team of scientists announced that they have discovered gravitational waves at a press conference.…

Right now those two branches of science don't get along; physicists can't figure out how the two id…

This thrum of gravitational waves is constantly pulsing through the universe. It opens a window int…

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

LIGO's first detection of a gravitational wave was a team effort involving hundreds of scientists a…

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

Until we recorded their gravitational waves, all evidence of black holes was indirect. "The regular…

"We're humans, we're curious, and on a quest to understand such weird things that are a big part of…

At each detector, there are two equally-long tunnels that have a mirror at the end (one of the mirr…

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Gravitational waves might also bridge quantum physics (the physics of the very small) with classica…

For the second time in less than a year, physicists have detected ripples in the fabric of spacetim…

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

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

Gravitational waves are ripples in the universe that contract and expand the spacetime around them.…

"Without sound you wouldn't detect all the life in the jungle," Stefano Vitale, Principal Investiga…

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