What occurs when the universe plays a cosmic curveball, breaking down long-standing assumptions about how black holes form?

Could it be that the universe’s first structures were born not from enigmatic inflaton fields, but from the echoes of ancient ...

Gravitational wave detectors have "heard" the ripples in space caused by the most massive black hole merger yet. One ...

Gravitational waves from merging black holes distorted due to a phenomenon predicted by Einstein could be a new way of measuring the rate of cosmic expansion.

Gravitational waves detected again, proving Einstein right 03:41. Scientists have observed for the first time the faint ripples caused by the motion of black holes that are gently stretching and ...

In their first four months of observations which occurred between 2015 and 2016, the team only detected three gravitational wave events. This second time around, “we’ve detected 35 events ...

With 90 detections now under our belt, gravitational waves are solving riddles about the evolution of galaxies and missing black holes – and they could soon give us a glimpse of dark matter ...

As predicted by the theory of general relativity, the passage of gravitational waves can leave a measurable change in the relative positions of objects. This physical phenomenon, known as ...

Trying to detect a gravity wave, then, is like standing in the surf at Big Sur and listening for a kiss blown across the Pacific. As for generating detectable waves on Earth, a la Hertz ...

Gravitational waves were detected for the first time a year and a half ago, when some of them throbbed through Earth. Two incredibly sensitive detectors—one in Washington State and one in ...

Cosmic lighthouses as gravitational wave detectors . To detect the gravitational wave background, astronomers studied fast-spinning stars called millisecond pulsars, which are dead stars that spin ...