The merger wasn’t just the biggest ever, but also an event so rare that it challenges existing models for black hole genesis.

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration has announced a groundbreaking discovery in the field of gravitational wave ...

The nodes in a quantum network don’t necessarily have to be computers; they can also be atomic clocks. The cesium atoms that ...

In 1919, a total solar eclipse allowed scientists to confirm Einstein’s theory of general relativity by observing how the sun’s gravity bent starlight. This discovery revolutionized physics and made ...

A short-lived ripple in space-time revealed that two black holes merged into a giant black hole with the mass of 225 suns ...

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 ...

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 team of scientists led by expert Raúl Jiménez, ICREA researcher at the University of Barcelona's Institute of Cosmos ...

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