First detected in 2015, gravitational waves may not have had a direct hand in human evolution, but it certainly helped set ...

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

This black hole merger animation was created using data collected by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors, an observation designated GW190412. Credits: © N. Fischer, H. Pfeiffer, A.

Jeremy Darling from the University of Colorado Boulder proposes an original approach to measure the gravitational wave ...

These detectors rely on interferometry, a method based on the superposition of light waves. A team from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light has developed Urania, an AI capable of ...

Scientists announced they have developed an artificial intelligence program capable of designing gravitational wave detectors that outperform human-made versions, potentially supercharging our ...

More information: Mario Krenn et al, Digital Discovery of Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors, Physical Review X (2025). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.15.021012 ...

Existing gravitational wave detectors rely on bouncing lasers back and forth between distant mirrors before recombining them to produce an interference pattern. Anything that alters the position ...

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 ...

"There are no major technological hurdles to overcome to realize this detector." Scientists developing more sensitive next-generation gravitational wave detectors struggle with technical ...

Rubin Observatory, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA gravitational wave detectors, and the LISA satellite mission. She is a Royal Society University Research Fellow and Reader at QMUL. Baker completed her training ...