The US also has plans to make a gravitational wave detector 10 times the size of LIGO. The proposed observatory is named the Cosmic Explorer, and if everything goes as planned, it will be ...

A century after Einstein predicted their existence, the first direct detection of gravitational waves was celebrated by the more than 1,000 scientists working on the LIGO experiment. They had ...

led some delightful scientists to "chirp" for LIGO on video ahead of the first announcement in 2016. While this detection may not be quite as exciting as the first time gravitational waves were ...

Researchers have shown that abstract mathematical functions from the frontiers of theoretical physics have a real-world use ...

SEE ALSO: Einstein was right: Scientists detect gravitational waves for the ... who is unaffiliated with LIGO, said in an email ahead of the announcement. "One detection was a proof of concept ...

A study published in Nature has established a new benchmark in modeling the universe's most extreme events: the collisions of ...

Plans for future upgrades to the 4-kilometer LIGO detectors and the construction of a next-generation 40-kilometer observatory, Cosmic Explorer, aim to push the gravitational-wave detection ...

An astrophysicist has proposed a new method for detecting slow-moving gravitational waves using light from distant quasars.

International team calculates observable quantities such as scattering angle and emitted energy with unrivalled precision.

One AI-designed detector increases sensitivity to gravitational waves from supernovas by a factor of 1.6 compared to LIGO's upcoming Voyager upgrade — potentially quadrupling the number of ...

which would not be detectable by an existing gravitational wave detector like LIGO, but we might be able to build one that can. Ultimately we’d be acting on conjecture on what a warp bubble ...

These tubes will be essential for the laser interferometry that underpins gravitational wave detection. At the heart of each LIGO observatory is this pair of vacuum tubes, where lasers bounce ...