"So far we have been watching the cosmos like a silent movie, capturing the ripples of spacetime ... supernova explosions, can send out some substantial waves.

“LISA will be sensitive to an as-of-yet unexplored regime of gravitational waves” or ripples in the fabric of spacetime, explains Michael Zevin, an astrophysicist at the Adler Planetarium and ...

Powerful, twisting lasers could let us create and detect gravitational waves, the ripples in space-time thus far only seen coming from cosmic objects. While the technology to do so is decades away ...

When an earthquake strikes, most of us imagine shaking buildings, cracked roads, and frightened people running for safety.

confirmed they made the first-ever detection of gravitational waves (GWs). These events occur when massive objects like neutron stars and black holes merge, sending ripples through spacetime that ...

in which gravitational ripples influence each other like waves on a shore. “Nonlinear effects are what happens when waves on the beach crest and crash,” said Keefe Mitman, Caltech astronomer ...

Sponsor Message These waves are like the ripples that move through a pond ... but it spins hundreds of times a second, sending out beams of radio emissions that regularly sweep the sky.

These slow ripples can take years or even decades ... who was not involved with the research. The black holes send off gravitational waves as they circle around in these pairings, known as binaries.

On August 14, 2017, those ripples in spacetime—called gravitational waves—washed over Earth ... relies on were to go down entirely, it would send the world into unprecedented chaos.

The strongest gravitational waves are produced by cataclysmic events like colliding black holes, which would disrupt space-time in such a way as to send out cosmic ripples, traveling in all ...