Ten years ago, astronomers made an epic discovery with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. Cosmology ...

What does it take to quantify a change in distance smaller than one-ten-thousandth the size of a proton? For the LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA (LVK) scientists, it is the secret to opening some of the ...

The Deep Loop Shaping technology, developed in collaboration with Google DeepMind, the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) team, and GSSI (Gran Sasso Science Institute), has ...

The observatory in Livingston Parish that made a historic scientific breakthrough by detecting gravitational waves is now at risk of shutting down under the Trump administration's proposed federal ...

A record-breaking black hole smash-up just expanded our view of the universe’s most extreme inhabitants. Is our cosmos just a membrane on the edge of a far stranger reality? These black holes’ masses ...

Trump budget proposal seeks to close one of two U.S. LIGO observatories by 2026. LIGO facilities detected first gravitational waves and advanced multi-messenger astronomy. Proposed closure risks ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have found evidence suggesting that a hidden supermassive black hole influenced the merger of two black holes in the event GW190814. Researchers at the ...