Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

New research published in Physical Review Letters suggests that superconducting magnets used in dark matter detection ...

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

Similar to gravitational observatories on Earth, the laser light is the crucial component of the detector. Gravitational ...

New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

This black hole merger animation was created using data collected by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors, an ...

For decades, scientists have believed there should be black holes that fall between two well-known types. On one end are ...

With LISA, ESA plans to catch gravitational waves from space, using a triangle of spacecraft millions of kilometers ...

Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. The Rubin Observatory released its first images last week, and ...

A cataclysmic variable star isn’t technically a single object. Instead, it’s a compact binary system composed of a white ...

Gravitational waves from two merging black holes are displayed behind astrophysicist Kip Thorne at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. Andrew Harnik/STF ...