When the LIGO collaboration announced the first, unambiguous detection of the gravitational waves produced by a black hole merger, several of the researchers hinted that there would be further news ...

Gravitational waves are still somewhat of a new concept to astronomers and astrophysicists because they were only just discovered in 2016 by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory ...

Now, two astrophysicists at the University of Miami say this strange signal, named S251112cm, could be the first real ...

Scientists since Albert Einstein have believed that when major galactic events like supernova explosions or black hole mergers occur in the universe, they leave a trace. That trace, it is believed, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When two massive objects – like black holes or neutron stars – merge, they warp space and time. Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library ...

On September 14, 2015, gravitational waves from the smashup of two black holes reached Earth. And for the first time, a scientific instrument was ready to detect this type of signal. This was a ...

After an effort of more than 100 years and a collaboration involving over 1,000 scientists, we all celebrated. It was Feb. 11, 2016, and LIGO had just announced their first direct detection of ...

There have been plenty of instances in science, even in just the past few years, where an incredible experiment brought back results that failed to hold up. Sometimes, it's because there's ...

A few years ago, a global team of scientists parlayed decades of research into the discovery of the Higgs boson. A humble software program called HTCondor churned away in the background, helping ...

The Nobel Prize-winning project that hunts for gravitational waves— ripples in space and time—is about to begin the longest and most sensitive observational run to date. The National Science ...

Two become one: coalescing binary black holes. (Courtesy: Caltech/MIT/LIGO Lab) Researchers from the LIGO collaboration who last week announced they had detected the first ever gravitational waves – ...