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

One week ago, National Science Foundation Director Rita Colwell spoke at the inauguration of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) facility in Livingston, Louisiana. LIGO’s ...

This artwork imagines the ultimate front-row seat for GW250114, a powerful collision between two black holes observed in gravitational waves by the US National Science Foundation LIGO. It depicts the ...

The challengers will have to pull of the heist of the century in this week’s episode of “The Challenge.” The only competitors still on the show at this point are Adrienne Naylor, America Lopez, Aneesa ...

The Las Vegas Raiders lost one of the best offensive tackles in the National Football League. Kolton Miller's injury is one Las Vegas could ill-afford but they must move on as injuries are a part of ...

Is this #JusticeForLeka at last? On Wednesday’s (October 1) new episode of The Challenge, Chris “C.T.” Tamburello finally reached the end of his road on Vets and New Threats, arguably long after he ...

NEW YORK — The New York Yankees face potential elimination Wednesday, and manager Aaron Boone had to explain a pair of decisions that factored into ending up there. The main question: Why pull ...

LIGO is an observatory that detects gravitational waves — ripples in spacetime caused by massive accelerating objects like merging black holes. It was the first to confirm their existence, supporting ...

LIGO's 2015 detection confirmed Einstein's theory and sparked a decade of data. Upgraded LIGOs now detect black hole mergers every three days with precision. New 2025 findings confirmed Hawking’s ...

LIVINGSTON PARISH, La. (WAFB) - A decade ago, researchers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detected ripples in the fabric of the universe, confirming the existence of ...

On September 14, 2015, a signal arrived on Earth, carrying information about a pair of remote black holes that had spiraled together and merged. The signal had traveled about 1.3 billion years to ...

A signal lasting less than a second traveled about 1.3 billion light years before it reached an observatory deep in the piney woods of Livingston 10 years ago. The brief signal — caused by a pair of ...