In a major scientific breakthrough, researchers have detected a persistent gravitational wave background — subtle ripples in ...

The international LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration reports the observations of two record-breaking events in gravitational wave ...

The younger black hole, the product of a cataclysmic cosmic event known as a black hole merger, was first spotted in 2019. Now, about 6 years later, a team of international researchers led by the ...

Gravity waves are a type of cloud pattern that have little to do with gravity and more to do with the waves. Think of a rock being thrown in a lake or pond and the ripples it creates. As the ripples ...

For centuries, the primary way that astronomers studied outer space was through sight. But just ten years ago, scientists successfully established a way to 'listen' to our cosmos – detecting ...

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A lot has happened in gravitational-wave astronomy over the past decade. Sept. 14, 2015, was one of the most important days in science history. It marked the first-ever detection of gravitational ...