Gravitational Waves

The gravitational waves would be weak, but potentially detectable by the next joint observing run of the world's gravitational-wave detectors.

From black holes to the search for life, scientific breakthroughs are on the horizon as new observatories come online.

Astrophysicists tested a potential approach to determining the state of the matter inside a neutron star, a tricky feat.

New research suggests that the expansion of the universe could be measured using colliding black holes as 'spectral sirens.'

Astronomers hope to use pulsars scattered around the galaxy as a giant gravitational wave detector. But why do we need them, and how do they work?

GOTO telescope will be the first to hunt for colliding black holes and neutron stars in a bid to find sources of gravitational waves.

Following two years of upgrades, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is almost ready for its next operating run, which is set to begin in March 2023.

Astronomers have spotted the first evidence of a merger event that gave a black hole a kick that left it traveling at around 3 million mph — fast enough for it to escape its host galaxy.

In a new analysis of their gravitational wave data, scientists with the international LIGO-Virgo Collaboration have discovered 10 new examples of merging binary black holes.

Telescopes that observe the universe in the most energetic form of light may help scientists detect the "fingerprints" of gravitational waves, new research reveals.

Around the world, astrophysicists are poring over the blips of gravitational waves that ripple through Earth when distant black holes or neutron stars collide. Most don't also attend high school.

Albert Einstein saw beyond human tribalism to an enlightened realm of tolerance. We can too: He left us clear directions for how to do it.

Take three black holes and throw them into the disk surrounding a supermassive black hole and things get really weird, really fast.

Europe's gravitational wave detector is expected to launch in 2037 to push forward a rapidly growing science field.

Scientists observed changes in the signals coming from rapidly-spinning stars called pulsars that might point to the existence of subtle space-time ripples vibrating throughout the entire universe.

Physicists turned on a new type of gravitational-wave sensor and saw two intriguing results, but they aren't yet ready to claim a discovery.

The moon is a great place to hunt for ripples in space-time, a new study argues.

Scientists have used computer models to predict the size of minuscule deformations, or mountains, on the surfaces of neutron stars, which are responsible for causing gravitational waves as they spin.

The earliest and most momentous epoch in the history of the universe released a flood of gravitational waves, tiny ripples in the fabric of space-time.