Could it be that the universe’s first structures were born not from enigmatic inflaton fields, but from the echoes of ancient ...

Joseph Giaime, head of the observatory, joined Louisiana Considered to talk to us about the event’s significance, and how ...

In the year of quantum, university’s faculty and students continue to innovate bold new work in quantum computing, ...

To study this merger, scientists had to use advanced models that account for how fast-spinning black holes behave—a ...

Scientists have developed a more precise method for analyzing gravitational waves, offering a sharper view into the ...

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

Instead of the big bang, some physicists have suggested that our universe may have come from a big bounce following another ...

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

A gravitational wave has revealed the biggest black-hole merger ever recorded—so massive and extreme, it defies current ...

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

Scientists say the two black holes merged after colliding at speeds near the limit allowed by Albert Einstein’s theory of ...

The LIGO Hanford Observatory near the Tri-Cities and its twin in Louisiana detected ripples of time and space passing through ...