L ast month, work began on the world’s first space-based gravitational wave detector. The European Space Agency and partner aerospace companies are developing orbiting, detector spacecraft to observe ...

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) is no stranger to making history and breaking records. In 2015 ...

A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...

An international team of physicists discovered the largest-ever merger of 2 black holes through a phenomenon known as gravitational waves.

European researchers aim to gain new insights into the universe with a gravitational wave observatory in space. The European Space Agency (ESA) and the space company OHB based in the German city ...

Back in 2016, the phenomenon—predicted by Einstein—was observed for the first time thanks to a collaboration of scientists using the Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (LIGO).

A puzzling gravitational wave was detected, and astronomers have determined that it comes from a record-breaking black hole ...

Gravitational-wave detectors have captured their biggest spectacle yet: two gargantuan, rapidly spinning black holes likely ...

The Trump administration has proposed closing either the LIGO Hanford observatory in WA or its twin in Louisiana.

LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, will be a revolutionary instrument that will allow humanity to observe gravitational waves from events we can’t track with the observatories on ...

LIGO now works with other gravitational-wave observatories around the world including Virgo, in Italy, and KAGRA, in Japan. Advertisement LIGO India is expected to come online in the early 2030s.

Recently, a research team from National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences jointly proposed a novel ;gravitational wave ...