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

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

Gravitational wave detectors have "heard" the ripples in space caused by the most massive black hole merger yet. One ...

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

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

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

A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...

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

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

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

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 ...