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 ...

The year 2015 was a landmark for the astrophysics community across the globe as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave ...

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

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 ...

The simulations revealed that stronger magnetic fields create lighter, slower spinning black holes, while weaker fields allow heavier, faster spinning ones. This relationship suggests black holes ...

The sheer existence of these behemoths was immediately flagged as impossible—for one, they fell squarely within the ...

Trump’s decision to slash the federal science budget is hitting hard in the US. There are worries that the cuts to LIGO – the ...

On Nov. 2, Kip Thorne took the stage at Harvey Mudd College’s Galileo Auditorium to recount his 50 year odyssey of making ...

Black holes, regions of spacetime in which gravity is so strong that nothing can escape, are intriguing and extensively ...

"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 ...

Sarah Wild talks to astronomers across the world who are on a hunt for a subtle hydrogen signal that could confirm or disprove our ideas on the universe’s evolution ...