The international LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration has completed the fourth observation campaign (called O4) of the international network of gravitational wave detectors. Launched in May 2023, the ...

Today the international LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration announces the completion of the fourth observation campaign of the ...

Fresh observations of two merging black holes confirm predictions made by Stephen Hawking based on Albert Einstein’s theory. A decade after the first detection of gravitational waves from two merging ...

In a single decade, we have gone from the first-ever gravitational wave detection to several hundred of them. Every time ...

The spin-off VM Photonics GmbH delivers ultra-stable and 10 times purer laser light for high-precision optical measurements ...

Business innovation: VM Photonics GmbH is a spin-off of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute; AEI) and Leibniz University Hannover. It offers ultra-precise ...

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are black holes theorized to have formed shortly after the Big Bang. Compared to black holes ...

Donald Trump's threats to cut funding towards research into black holes put any possible future discoveries "at risk," critics warn. It comes as key developments are happening within the field. For ...

Trump’s decision to slash the federal science budget is hitting hard in the US. There are worries that the cuts to LIGO – the Laser Interferometric Gravitational Wave Observatory – will result in the ...

Past research about black hole births rarely included magnetic fields or the spins of the precursor stars. But considering ...

"By the middle of next year, we expect to be in a position to decide on the way forward, with clarity on NASA funding and ...