New research published in Physical Review Letters suggests that superconducting magnets used in dark matter detection ...

This black hole merger animation was created using data collected by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors, an ...

A senior researcher from a groundbreaking international science and engineering collaboration returned to visit his old ...

In a new study, physicists propose that superconducting magnets from dark matter experiments that are originally designed to ...

Astronomers confirm ‘lite intermediate’ black holes, too large for ordinary stars, revealing clues about early stellar ...

In a recently published paper in Physical Review Letters, scientists propose a comprehensive theoretical framework indicating ...

For decades, scientists have believed there should be black holes that fall between two well-known types. On one end are ...

"Honestly, it's been a little devastating," Kevin Hardegree-Ullman, a scientist at the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at ...

Aside from operating and improving the gravitational wave detector, the Livingston observatory's main goals are also to use LIGO data for science, and to carry out education and public outreach at ...

Gravitational wave detectors rely on exquisitely sensitive optical systems, where mirror coatings play a critical role. In these systems, coating thermal noise – originating from intrinsic ...

Aside from operating and improving the gravitational wave detector, the Livingston observatory's main goals are also to use LIGO data for science, and to carry out education and public outreach at ...