Double Cosmic Explosion Gives Birth to Unprecedented ‘Superkilonova’
When massive stars die, they go out in fiery explosions called supernovas. On rarer occasions, two nearly dead…
That Black Hole Merger That ‘Shouldn’t’ Exist’? Scientists Propose a Wild Explanation
When LIGO broke news of an unintelligibly large black hole merger earlier this year, physicists were stunned but…
Scientists Think This Mysterious Signal May Have Come Through a Wormhole
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In May of 2019, a short-duration binary black hole…
A wormhole from another universe? Scientists revisit the puzzling black hole GW190521
In May 2019, astronomers picked up something strange in the fabric of spacetime. The LIGO and Virgo detectors…
New device gives LIGO 10x boost to spot distant gravitational waves
Gravitational waves, tiny ripples in spacetime caused by cosmic collisions like merging black holes, are almost impossibly faint.…
Scientists Say They May Have Just Detected a Wormhole From Another Universe
Back in 2019, the gravitational wave observatories LIGO and Virgo detected major ripples in spacetime. While astronomers generally…
Daylight Savings Time Is So Bad, It’s Messing With Our View of the Cosmos
Tracking gravitational waves—invisible ripples in space-time from intense astronomical events—pushes the limits of what astronomers must do to…
A ‘kick’ shot a black hole through space. Scientists measured its speed and direction
Scientists have for the first time ever succeeded in getting some data on a newborn black hole that…
Black hole collision confirms decades-old predictions by Einstein and Hawking
Astronomers have detected a collision between two black holes in unprecedented detail, offering the clearest view yet into…
Colliding black holes ‘ringing’ across space and time prove Hawking, Einstein theories right
Once again, it turns out that renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking was right. Oh, and Albert Einstein, too.…
International collaboration doubles detection of cosmic collisions | Innovate UK
An international team of researchers has announced a significant advancement in gravitational-wave astronomy, with the detection of 128…
Scientists Found a Black Hole That Shouldn’t Exist. Now Physics Has a Problem.
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Over the past decade, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) network has…