For reference, Pluto’s average distance from the Sun is about 40 AU, so 2023 KQ14 is quite distant. At 23.4 billion miles (37 ...

The LIGO Hanford Observatory near the Tri-Cities and its twin in Louisiana detected ripples of time and space passing through Earth from the most massive collision of black holes ever observed, a ...

On November 23, 2023, a groundbreaking astronomical event unfolded as scientists from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration detected the most massive black hole merger ever observed. The finding was ...

The Trump administration has proposed closing either the LIGO Hanford observatory in WA or its twin in Louisiana.

Astronomers have detected the signal of a colossal black hole in deep space that likely formed when two already-large black ...

The Langlands programme has inspired and befuddled mathematicians for more than 50 years. A major advance has now opened up ...

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

Scientists develop a more accurate way to analyse gravitational waves, that could give us a clearer picture of the Universe’s most extreme collisions, led by the University of Portsmouth, England.

Researchers are using machine learning, symbolic regression, and high-performance computing to explore and classify string ...

Glasgow University scientists have developed a new dance mimicking ripples of spacetime first theorised by Albert Enstein.

Researchers from the University of Glasgow teamed up with the culture and research organisation Science Ceilidh to develop a dance to mark the 10th anniversary of the historic first detection of ...