Artist's illustration of two black holes ringing. (Maggie Chiang for Simons Foundation) Of all the objects in the Universe, ...

About 1.3 billion light-years away, two massive black holes had merged, and the resulting shockwave—a gravitational wave—was strong enough for LIGO to detect the moment it washed over Earth. Since ...

Researchers from the University of Glasgow's Institute for Gravitational Research are celebrating the publication of a vast ...

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.

Scientists revisited the Antikythera Mechanism after a YouTuber’s experiment—and may have finally solved the mystery of the ...

LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA, an international scientific collaboration, has announced a near doubling of the detected ripples in ...

You can't see or feel it, but everything around you -- including your own body -- is slowly shrinking and expanding. It's the weird, spacetime-warping effect of gravitational waves passing through our ...

A cool timelapse showing gravity waves as they turn into lenticular clouds in Coquitlam, BC ...

FROSTI is a new adaptive optics system that precisely corrects distortions in LIGO’s mirrors caused by extreme laser power. By using custom thermal patterns, it preserves mirror shape without ...

A rewrite of quantum mechanics that includes the force of gravity could finally achieve one of physicists’ biggest goals and ...

In a series of new observations, astronomers have nearly doubled the number of black hole collisions ever identified.

The universe is full of fascinating structures, and some of the most striking take shape inside the giant clouds where stars ...