In the world of astrophysics, Stephen Hawking’s predictions about black holes have always sparked fascination and debate.

Fresh observations of two merging black holes confirm predictions made by Stephen Hawking based on Albert Einstein’s theory. A decade after the first detection of gravitational waves from two merging ...

Scientists have potentially solved the mystery behind LIGO's forbidden black hole pair, GW231123, through new computer simulations involving fast-spinning, magnetized stars.

Funding uncertainties are pushing U.S. space scientists out of the field and putting existing and future space missions on the chopping block.

Business innovation: VM Photonics GmbH is a spin-off of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute; AEI) and Leibniz University Hannover. It offers ultra-precise ...

The spin-off VM Photonics GmbH delivers ultra-stable and 10 times purer laser light for high-precision optical measurements ...

The international LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration has completed the fourth observation campaign (called O4) of the ...

Trump’s decision to slash the federal science budget is hitting hard in the US. There are worries that the cuts to LIGO – the Laser Interferometric Gravitational Wave Observatory – will result in the ...

Today the international LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration announces the completion of the fourth observation campaign of the ...