Ten years ago, scientists heard the universe rumble for the first time. That first discovery of gravitational waves proved a key prediction from Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity and ...

The discovery of gravitational waves from a merging black-hole system opens a window on the Universe that promises to test gravity at its strongest, and to reveal many surprises about black holes and ...

A new model suggests how gravitational waves created by the collision between black holes spread and interact within the fabric of space-time. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Two become one: coalescing binary black holes. (Courtesy: Caltech/MIT/LIGO Lab) Researchers from the LIGO collaboration who last week announced they had detected the first ever gravitational waves – ...

Let’s consider GW150914, the first binary black hole merger detected via gravitational waves. The final black hole formed during the merger is 60 times the mass of the Sun, which means that its size ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In May of 2019, a short-duration binary black hole (BBH) merger contained no evidence of the inspiral signal typical of these kinds of a ...

The Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave observatory (aLIGO) 1 has confidently observed gravitational waves (GWs) from two binary black hole (BBH) mergers, GW150914 (ref. 2) and GW151226 ...

Gravitational-wave background noise created by merging back holes could be 10 times louder than had been expected, according to calculations by astrophysicists working on the LIGO and Virgo ...

On September 14, 2015 at 09:50:45 UTC advanced LIGO observed GW150914, a chirp of gravitational waves caused by the merging of two stellar-mass black holes. Just 0.4 seconds later, the Fermi gamma ray ...

When black holes merge, the resulting black hole exhibits an increase in both its total mass and the diameter of its event horizon. The "diameter" of a black hole refers to its event horizon, which ...

Simon Stevenson receives funding from the Australian Research Council. He works for Swinburne University of Technology. He is a member of OzGrav and the LIGO Scientific collaboration. Ten years ago, ...