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 ...

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

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 ...

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

In a single decade, we have gone from the first-ever gravitational wave detection to several hundred of them. Every time ...

According to the observatories ' records in3, GW231123 was a gravitational-wave signal from two merging black holes of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are black holes theorized to have formed shortly after the Big Bang. Compared to black holes ...