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

Citizen scientists working with the Kilonova Project made their first confirmed discovery of a rare exploding star, enabling ...

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

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

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

More information: Jörg Frauendiener et al, Fully Nonlinear Gravitational Wave Simulations from Past to Future Null Infinity, Physical Review Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.161401.

An example of gravitational wave-emitting systems are binary black holes, which set spacetime ringing as two black holes within each of these systems swirl around one another.

In 2016, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and Virgo collaborations announced the first detections of the subtle waves, which stretch and squeeze the fabric of the ...

Our current gravitational-wave detectors fail on both counts. LIGO uses masses attached to pendulums, which mechanically restore their position after a wave passes, obfuscating any memory measurement.

The space-based gravitational wave observatory will be placed on a track to be built and launched into orbit the mid-2030s. As explained by NASA, LISA will be composed of three spacecraft in a ...

As for gravitational-wave background researchers, “we're right at the beginning,” she says. “We're just starting to see the signal. But in the future, we will be able to do similar things.” The ...

Gravitational wave researcher Christopher Berry joins Leah and Chelsea this episode to talk about tuning the frequency of gravitational waves to vibrate the whole planet apart, whether it would be ...