A novel way to find aliens might be through gravitational wave detection, Loeb says. He is interested in laser interferometry ...

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO, is one of the most powerful scientific equipment for detecting gravitational waves. Covering an area of 16 square kilometers ...

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

Can scientists build a detector of near-Earth objects that would sense gravitational waves produced by any "dark" objects ...

On August 14, the after-effects of an extreme cosmic blast rippled through you, me, and everyone we know. But you didn't feel it. The only instruments on Earth that knew the fabric of space and ...

The three researchers all contributed key findings that led to discoveries made by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), two twin observatories in Louisiana and ...

We all know that black holes can devour stars, rip them apart and consume their remnants. But that only happens if a star ...

Since the first detection in 2015 by the LIGO and Virgo collaboration, over 200 gravitational wave events have been observed. These disturbances in spacetime were predicted by Albert Einstein ...

Although these waves have already been detected by observatories such as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Virgo interferometer, the waves' lingering imprint ...

The project will explore how gravitational wave detection techniques—such as those used by LIGO (Laser Interferometer ...

A machine learning method has the potential to revolutionize multi-messenger astronomy. Detecting binary neutron star mergers ...