FROnt Surface Type Irradiator, or FROSTI, will allow future detectors to run at higher laser powers, reducing noise and ...

In January 2025, a ripple in spacetime reached Earth from more than a billion light-years away. It wasn’t light or radio ...

Ten years after the first detection of gravitational waves, scientists have captured the clearest signal yet — and it confirms one of Stephen Hawking’s most famous predictions. Using the upgraded LIGO ...

UW-Milwaukee physics and astronomy assistant professor Lia Medeiros explains gravitational waves and the role UWM played in discovering them.

A strange chirp detected by LIGO in 2019 has some scientists searching for answers beyond a simple black hole merger.

Researchers have built a small but powerful detector to find gravitational waves in a hidden frequency range. The discovery could expose unseen black hole activity and early-universe echoes.

Einstein was a great thinker who made plenty of mistakes—errors that sometimes led to more meaningful discoveries in physics, ...

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Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

Learn more about black holes and what causes them to ring. A massive new study adds evidence to theories by Einstein, Hawking ...

The world's most sensitive table-top interferometric system—a miniature version of miles-long gravitational-wave detectors like LIGO—has completed its first science run.

Nobel laureate Kip Thorne, who will deliver the Royal Irish Academy 2025 Hamilton Lecture, on his lifelong quest to understand more about space ...