Centuries before anyone pointed a telescope at the sky, Isaac Newton figured out how gravity works. He showed that any object ...
Theoretical physicist Alex Lupsasca is pushing for a space telescope to glimpse the thin ring of light that is thought to surround every black hole.
"GW241011 and GW241110 are among the most novel events among the several hundred that the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA network has ...
In the 10 years since the first detection of gravitational waves, we have detected hundreds of these waves produced by the ...
In a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the international LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration reports on the detection of two gravitational wave events in October and November of 2024 ...
In January 2025, a ripple in spacetime reached Earth from more than a billion light-years away. It wasn’t light or radio ...
As the collapsed core of a massive star, a neutron star is a small but incredibly dense object, packing up to three times the ...
Ten years after the first detection of gravitational waves, scientists have captured the clearest signal yet — and it confirms one of Stephen Hawking’s most famous predictions. Using the upgraded LIGO ...