Physicists have analyzed two enormous black hole mergers that happened one month apart and have come up with tantalizing ...

This week, researchers published LIGO findings that hint at the existence of second-generation black holes. Astronomers ...

Twin black hole collisions detected in 2024 have provided the sharpest-ever test of Einstein’s theory while revealing new details about how black holes form and spin.

Gravitational wave detectors on Earth have heard the "cry" of two newborn black holes with some unusual and remarkable ...

For the first time, scientists have detected two black hole mergers with spins so unusual they may reveal a new generation of ...

New results from an international team including UBC astrophysicists highlight the first black hole observed to be spinning ...

Scientists believe if the Trump administration's proposed budget is approved, a Louisiana space observatory could be on the chopping block and see its scientific mission crippled. The Trump ...

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Putting the squeeze on light improves gravitational wave observatories. An upgrade to one such observatory, LIGO, that comes from exploiting a quantum rule known as the Heisenberg uncertainty ...

For 13 years, the scientists of LIGO—the most ambitious, and expensive, project in the history of the National Science Foundation—had been waiting. LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave ...

LIGO detected gravitational waves created from the collision between two black holes. The detection was awesome, but let's look at the name of the detector for a second: Laser Interferometer ...

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