Spacetime ripples from a black hole collision across the cosmos have confirmed weird aspects of black hole physics ...

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When incredibly massive objects collide violently in space, they send out ripples in space-time that reverberate through the cosmos for billions of years. Long after the collisions happen, these ...

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An illustration imagines GW250114, a powerful collision between two black holes observed in gravitational waves by the LIGO experiment, from the perspective of one of the black holes as it spirals ...

This article was produced for The Kavli Prize by Scientific American Custom Media, a division separate from the magazine's board of editors. About a billion years ago, a pair of black holes 30 times ...

The world's most sensitive table-top interferometric system—a miniature version of miles-long gravitational-wave detectors ...

Threats of scorching heat, walls of tumbleweed, and countless critters mean innovation is a must for the facilities manager for LIGO Hanford Observatory. Glynn “Bubba” Gateley is not a physicist. And ...

Scientists in Wales have built the world’s most sensitive table-top interferometer, which is a miniature, ultra-precise ...