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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

The black hole was bigger than expected, and while the answer was hiding in plain sight, it still rewrites what we thought ...

A newly observed gravitational wave event from the collision of two massive, rapidly spinning black holes forces scientists to reconsider how these cosmic giants are born and grow.

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