In spite of having the odds against them, scientists have already used LIGO to detect the collisions of two different pairs of black holes billions of light-years from Earth. In doing so ...

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO, is one of the most powerful ... is expanding and the true ...

A study published in Physical Review Letters outlines a new approach for extracting information from binary systems by ...

A novel way to find aliens might be through gravitational wave detection, Loeb says. He is interested in laser interferometry ...

We can also detect black holes by detecting the ripples in space-time created ... Then, in 2015, two special detectors known as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) picked up ...

Extreme cosmic events such as colliding black holes or the explosions of stars can cause ripples in spacetime, so-called ...

Ricardo Dearatanha / Los Angeles Times / Getty Images More than a billion years ago, in a galaxy far, far away, two black ... LIGO was barely at the sensitivity threshold necessary to detect ...

The laser instruments operated by the international LIGO-VIRGO Collaboration have caught the gravitational waves emanating from the cataclysmic union of two black holes. One was 66 times the mass ...

These tiny ripples in space and time are generated when black holes or neutron stars collide. In September 2015, the LIGO observatories detected gravitational waves for the very first time on Earth.

An international team of researchers has made a third detection of gravitational waves ... new insights into the mysterious nature of black holes and, potentially, dark matter.

Einstein imagined gravitational waves over a hundred years ago, but it wasn't until 2016 that technology finally caught up.