A study published in Nature has established a new benchmark in modeling the universe's most extreme events: the collisions of ...

Researchers have shown that abstract mathematical functions from the frontiers of theoretical physics have a real-world use ...

This black hole merger animation was created using data collected by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors, an observation designated GW190412. Credits: © N. Fischer, H. Pfeiffer, A.

Scientists have made the most accurate predictions yet of the gravitational waves produced when two black holes fly past each ...

Astronomers searching for massive black holes shredding stars found one in an unusual place -- 2,600 light years from the core of a galaxy. The roque black hole may be from an earlier merger with ...

Illustration of the first gravitational wave observation by LIGO. The waveforms detected at Hanford (orange) and Livingston (blue) are superimposed over depictions of merging black holes. Credit: ...

International team calculates observable quantities such as scattering angle and emitted energy with unrivalled precision.

Jackie explains that a laser inside the tubes is split, bounces off mirrors, and goes straight back to sensors at the center ...

With gravitational wave observatories like LIGO entering a new phase of sensitivity and next-generation detectors such as LISA on the horizon, this research meets the increasing demand for ...

Relic Gravitons, by Massimo Giovannini of INFN Milan Bicocca, offers a timely and authoritative guide to one of the most ...