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.

Whether in current interferometers such as LIGO, or future detectors such ... step toward enhancing the sensitivity of gravitational-wave detectors, bringing us closer to unlocking the mysteries ...

In September 2015 the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory — the most precise distance ... Rodriguez said in an April 2016 TEDx NorthwesternU talk. LIGO made a second detection in ...

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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 was a watershed moment in physics and astrophysics, ...

As part of this research, the Hannover institute is partly a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, which collects data from the world's most sensitive gravitational-wave observatories, and ...

Scientists have observed “bending” atoms using a crystal grating—an experiment once believed impossible at the high energies ...

so that was the date that we detected with LIGO. So it’s the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. And there are two of them. There’s one in Hanford, Washington and one in Livingston, ...

Shania Nichols is a physicist with a background in gravitational wave detector characterization and astronomy ... During her time at LSU, she researched loud transient noise in the LIGO gravitational ...

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 ...