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

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) is no stranger to making history and breaking records. In 2015 ...

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

Scientists are using pulsars to detect the gravitational wave 'hum' created from supermassive black hole mergers. Credit: ...

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

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

A new theory promises to simplify our approach to the universe's earliest moments, but some cosmologists say further ...

Using ripples in space-time predicted by Einstein, a team of researchers has detected a cosmic merger of unprecedented ...

Gravitational waves, the result of two black holes merging, have been detected by a sophisticated observatory. Scientists say that proves Einstein was right.

The waves in Wednesday's announcement traveled for 1.4 billion years before they reached Earth late last year and set off detectors at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO ...