Federal cuts threaten research at observatory, a decade after historic discovery
LIVINGSTON PARISH, La. (WAFB) – A decade ago, researchers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detected ripples…
10 years ago, gravitational waves were detected for the first time
It’s officially been 10 years since the first detection of gravitational waves. At the time, it had been…
Astronomers Uncover “Mysterious Giant” Lurking Behind Binary Black Holes
Binary black hole merger near a supermassive black hole. Credit: SHAO GW190814’s gravitational waves suggest a hidden supermassive…
Ripples from the Big Bang could transform our understanding of the universe — and we may be close to detecting them
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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…
Physicists detect largest-ever merger of 2 black holes equal in size to 240 suns
Sometime in their cosmic lives, two gigantic black holes crashed into one another to form something even more…
LIGO has spotted the most massive black hole collision ever detected
Illustration of merging of black holes Shutterstock / Jurik Peter A record-breaking black hole smash-up just expanded our…