In 2015, a piece of equipment at an observatory in the US moved one quintillionth (10-18) of a meter. This tiny movement was ...

EVANSTON, Ill. (CBS) -- A Northwestern University astrophysicist is part of an international team of scientists creating a gravitational wave detector system that will eventually be launched into ...

Jeremy Darling from the University of Colorado Boulder proposes an original approach to measure the gravitational wave background. These cosmic vibrations, particularly resulting from collisions ...

But those detailed measurements only captured how gravitational waves move in a single direction—akin to waves flowing directly toward and away from a shoreline. Darling, in contrast ...

Sponsor Message These waves are like the ripples that move through a pond if you toss ... last fifteen years to find a low-pitched hum of gravitational waves resounding throughout the universe ...

These ripples, called gravitational waves, are caused by the movements of massive objects like black holes, and researchers have detected them warping Earth by minuscule amounts. But what if they ...

The bending of spacetime determines how objects move in relation to one another – what people experience as gravity. Gravitational waves are created when massive objects like black holes or ...

Researchers found new signs of gravitational waves that are affected by huge movements such as the collision of black holes. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien breaks it down. Let's expand our ...

But gravitational waves were not detected definitively until ... "We're actually able to extract very detailed information because the movement of the mass is directly reflected in these ...

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

This is because the most massive objects like black holes move through the inspiral binary stage more rapidly. LIGO illustrates this by pointing out that the gravitational wave signal from the ...