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.

Earlier this year, researchers reported the most massive black hole merger ever detected. But the event was so unusual that ...

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 international network of gravitational wave detectors. Launched in May 2023, 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 ...

The year 2015 was a landmark for the astrophysics community across the globe as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave ...

Might the universe’s most extreme black holes owe their existence to magnetism? In 2023, gravitational wave detectors LIGO, ...

On Nov. 2, Kip Thorne took the stage at Harvey Mudd College’s Galileo Auditorium to recount his 50 year odyssey of making ...