The team added new limits to how dark matter could interact with the LIGO detector, boosting hopes for future runs.

A visiting astrophysicist on Monday brought the science of space to Manhattan. Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

A new study published in Physical Review Letters (PRL) proposes using gravitational wave detectors like LIGO to search for ...

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration Meeting officially kicked off in Barcelona, bringing together nearly 800 researchers from around the world to ...

Scientists are using pulsars to detect the gravitational wave 'hum' created from supermassive black hole mergers. Credit: National Science Foundation (NSF) ...

Hunting for black holes sounds like the premise of a new Hollywood blockbuster, but at Vanderbilt University, Assistant Professor of Physics and ...

Scientists propose a new approach to detect scalar field dark matter using LIGO, the gravitational wave observatory.

This black hole merger animation was created using data collected by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors, an observation designated GW190412. Credits: © N. Fischer, H. Pfeiffer, A.

The sum impact of those signals is a wobbly, seemingly random pattern called gravitational-wave background, he said. “As this research improves our sensitivity to that background, we’ll become ...

The citizen science app, available in eight languages, uses public input to identify kilonovae, neutron star mergers that ...

A quantum sensing experiment now has the potential to identify single gravitons — the particles that make up gravity — which ...