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 ...

Jackie explains that a laser inside the tubes is split, bounces off mirrors, and goes straight back to sensors at the center ...

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

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

With her experience in detector design, Dooley understands the challenge of gravitational wave observation better than most people. Ground-based observatories like LIGO and GEO600 are similar ...

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 ...

Relic Gravitons, by Massimo Giovannini of INFN Milan Bicocca, offers a timely and authoritative guide to one of the most ...

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 ...

One of the most surprising findings was the discovery of Calabi-Yau three-fold periods—geometric structures traditionally ...

A team of researchers from TU Dortmund University, the University of Paderborn, and the University of Nottingham has ...

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 ...