A new concept for energy transfer between gravitational waves and light. When massive cosmic objects such as black holes merge or neutron stars crash into one another, they can produce gravitational ...

University of Colorado Boulder astrophysicist Jeremy Darling is pursuing a new way of measuring the universe's gravitational wave background—the constant flow of waves that churn through the cosmos, ...

In 2015, a piece of equipment at an observatory in the US moved one quintillionth (10-18) of a meter. This tiny movement was the first recorded event of gravitational waves. And it helped confirm ...

When black holes need a place to crash, they prefer a nice, bright quasar. So says Chiara Mingarelli, an assistant professor of physics in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences and a key member of an ...

A physicist has proposed a bold experiment that could allow gravitational waves to be manipulated using laser light. By ...

After detection, there's a small window of time within which follow-up, light-based astronomy observations can be made. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...

In 2023, physicists were awed to find nearly imperceptible ripples in the fabric of space and time — united as an entity known as spacetime. They were ripples discovered in association with ...

Observatories, experiments and techniques are being developed to spot ripples in space-time at frequencies that currently can’t be detected. In September 2015, a vibration lasting just one-fifth of a ...

Discovery joins a list of the greatest hits of the LIGO detector, which ten years ago became the first to detect gravitational waves. The songs of the cosmos, now that we can finally hear them, might ...

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Decades ago physicists realized that gravitational waves are no mere passing phenomenon. Instead those ripples in space should leave behind permanent marks: a fixed distortion in their wake. So far ...

Simon Stevenson receives funding from the Australian Research Council. He works for Swinburne University of Technology. He is a member of OzGrav and the LIGO Scientific collaboration. Ten years ago, ...