Extreme cosmic events such as colliding black holes or the explosions of stars can cause ripples in spacetime, so-called ...

Pune: The construction of LIGO India is finally set to start in Maharashtra's Hingoli, two years after the project was ...

Researchers have developed an AI system capable of designing entirely new types of detectors for observing gravitational ...

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

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

Extreme cosmic events such as colliding black holes or the explosions of stars can cause ripples in spacetime, so-called gravitational waves. Their ...

Calculations had shown that LIGO was barely at the sensitivity threshold necessary to detect gravitational waves. So in 2010, LIGO was shut down for various upgrades, to the tune of more than $200 ...

Einstein believed that black holes didn't really exist. But they do: that much we know. We don't know much else about them.