A decade ago astrophysicists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), operated by the California ...

Researchers have shown that abstract mathematical functions from the frontiers of theoretical physics have a real-world use ...

International team calculates observable quantities such as scattering angle and emitted energy with unrivalled precision.

After nearly a decade of planning, lobbying, and fine-tuning, the Indian government has greenlit the full-scale construction of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory-India (LIGO ...

While current gravitational wave detectors — such as Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) and its sister site Virgo — have proven very successful, a new study argues ...

Jackie explains that a laser inside the tubes is split, bounces off mirrors, and goes straight back to sensors at the center ...

While current gravitational wave detectors — such as Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) and its sister site Virgo — have proven very successful, a new study argues there exists ...

But hopes of a similar mission are still alive, fueled in part by the proposed Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) for space-based gravitational wave astronomy. In 2015, the European Space ...

Magnetar flares, colossal cosmic explosions, may be directly responsible for the creation and distribution of heavy elements across the universe, suggests a new study.

A scientist from Tokyo Metropolitan University has solved the longstanding problem of a "dissonance" in gravitational waves emitted by ...