Efforts are underway to improve the design and sensitivity of gravitational waves detectors, with the hope that the next generation of these detectors will observe a gravitational wave signal ...

In a new Physical Review Letters study, researchers have successfully followed a gravitational wave's complete journey from ...

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

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

This black hole merger animation was created using data collected by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors, an ...

With gravitational wave observatories like LIGO entering a new phase of sensitivity and next-generation detectors such as LISA on the horizon, this research meets the increasing demand for ...

Pioneer of general relativity and gravitational-wave theories saw her work confirmed by observations 65 years later.

A decade ago astrophysicists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), operated by the California Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

AI algorithm helps telescopes to pivot fast towards gravitational-wave sources To formulate this power series, Driesse and colleagues use techniques originally developed in the field of particle ...

University of Colorado Boulder astrophysicist Jeremy Darling is pursuing a new way of measuring the universe's gravitational wave background—the constant flow of waves that churn through the ...

By adapting mathematical techniques used in particle physics, researchers in Germany have developed an approach that could ...