The world's most sensitive table-top interferometric system—a miniature version of miles-long gravitational-wave detectors ...

Researchers have discovered there was an anomaly in Earth's gravitational field between 2006 and 2008, potentially caused by ...

Gravitational waves are energy-carrying waves produced by the acceleration or disturbance of massive objects. These waves, ...

The collision of two neutron stars creates a cosmic explosion so powerful it forges gold, unleashes gravitational waves, and floods the universe with deadly gamma rays.

September 2025 marks ten years since the first direct detection of gravitational waves as predicted by Albert Einstein’s 1916 ...

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.

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In 2019, LIGO and Virgo recorded something truly bizarre – a gravitational wave event less than a tenth of a second in duration. Compared to the drawn-out chirps of black hole binaries on decaying ...

Scott Detrow talks to Lulu Miller, the host of Radiolab's Terrestrials podcast, about her conversation with the scientist Wanda Diaz-Merced, who studies gravitational waves that ripple through ...

Ten years ago this month, gravitational waves were first detected on planet Earth. Now, gravitational waves had been something that scientists had thought existed going back to Albert Einstein. His ...

Researchers have, for the first time, tracked the recoil of a newborn black hole, revealing new insights into the hidden violence of cosmic mergers. Credit: Shutterstock The GW190412 merger revealed a ...