In a preprint titled “Can LIGO Detect Daylight Savings Time?,” Reed Essick, former LIGO member and now a physicist at the ...

A cosmic event has helped prove a theory by Stephen Hawking, as scientists were able to 'listen' to black holes merging ...

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

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

Since that day, LIGO — composed of two highly sensitive laser interferometers located in Hanford, Washington and Livingston, ...

The National Science Foundation’s LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) is set to resume its hunt for gravitational waves — ripples in space and time — on April 1, after receiving ...

In May 2019, astronomers picked up something strange in the fabric of spacetime. The LIGO and Virgo detectors recorded a ...

More than 50 years ago, acclaimed theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking theorized that the area of a black hole could never ...

Artificial intelligence is poised to take LIGO's search for gravitational waves to the next level, with Google's help.

This artwork imagines the ultimate front-row seat for GW250114, a powerful collision between two black holes observed in gravitational waves by the US National Science Foundation LIGO. It depicts the ...

“LIGO has created an entire new branch of astronomy ... “This included, for the first time, a clear extraction of the first ‘overtone,’ a fainter harmonious sound of the ringing hole, in addition to ...