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…
GW190521 Challenges Black Hole Physics
Your typical black hole merger sounds like a cosmic violin warming up—a gentle “chirp” that builds as two…
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…
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…
Unusual Gravitational Wave May Be Sign of Wormhole Linking Universes
In 2019, LIGO and Virgo recorded something truly bizarre – a gravitational wave event less than a tenth…
Astronomers Detect a Black Hole Merger That’s So Massive It Shouldn’t Exist
Gravitational waves—ripples in space-time caused by violent cosmic events—travel at the speed of light in every direction, eventually…