Humanity's first space-based gravitational wave detector has received the go-ahead ... 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in the U.S. and the Virgo interferometer ...

The size and spin of black holes can reveal how and where they were born, and gravitational waves offer a way to decode this information like a cosmic DNA test.

The UK and US governments will spend £25m upgrading the machines that made the historic first detection ... Advanced LIGO. Pallab Ghosh explains the sound of the gravitational wave and a computer ...

With a project of this size—around 800 miles long, to be precise—other discoveries are also possible. In fact, a recently ...

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On Sept. 14, 2015 astronomers “heard” two black holes crashing into each other at close to the speed of light. This discovery ...

Print. * Aasi, J, et al. "First Low Frequency All-sky Search for Continuous Gravitational Wave Signals." Physical Review D 93. (2016): 42007. Print. * Abbott, B P, et al. "GW150914: The Advanced LIGO ...

In new research published in The Astrophysical Journal, scientists used the British-German GEO600 gravitational wave detector to probe ... used the more powerful LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA (LVK ...

Recently, a research team from National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences jointly proposed a novel  gravitational wave ...