LIGO

Since LIGO’s Nobel-winning discovery of gravitational waves—ripples in spacetime—the U.S.-based detector has been picking up on hundreds of…

A major new release of gravitational-wave detections is offering researchers an unprecedented view of some of the universe’s…

Artist’s illustration of two black holes orbiting each other. Credit: Carl Knox, OzGrav, Swinburne University of Technology Scientists…

When two black holes crash together, the violence does not end at impact. The newly formed black hole…

Some of the biggest black holes ever picked up through gravitational waves may not have formed in a…

Dark matter is thought to make up most of the matter in the universe, but the only way…

For just one-tenth of a second in May 2019, the universe delivered a signal that did not fit…

Gravitational waves reveal an explosive “forbidden range” of stellar destruction so powerful that not even a black hole…

A recent LIGO catalog update more than doubled the number of confirmed gravitational wave signals—ripples in spacetime caused…

APOD: 2026 March 26 – Black Holes and Neutron Stars: 218 Mergers and Counting Discover the cosmos! Each…

Between May 2023 and January 2024, a global network of gravitational-wave detectors picked up 128 new cosmic signals,…

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Scientists Say Some Black Holes Are Born From Other Black Holes