L ast month, work began on the world’s first space-based gravitational wave detector. The European Space Agency and partner ...

An international team of physicists discovered the largest-ever merger of 2 black holes through a phenomenon known as ...

A new method to analyze gravitational-wave data could transform how we study some of the universe's most extreme events—black ...

A physics conference has received a report of the gravitational wave from the heaviest pair of black holes we’ve so far ...

At 225 solar masses, this gargantuan merger of two black holes challenges our thinking on these famously elusive objects.

Gravitational wave detectors have "heard" the ripples in space caused by the most massive black hole merger yet. One ...

Two colossal black holes among the most massive ever seen collided in deep space, creating gravitational waves that rippled ...

Earlier today, the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics was announced: to Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish, and Kip Thorne, for their pioneering contributions to gravitational wave astronomy. Of course, the real ...

NANOGrav’s 12.5-year dataset, released in 2021, was a compelling hint that the gravitational wave background was out there, but the new data—their 15-year dataset—includes evidence of ...

A partial view of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detector site in Livingston, La. LIGO's second site is in Hanford, Wash. Together LIGO's two detectors are slated ...