Study offers possible solution to a gravitational wave mystery

Scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder may have solved a pressing mystery about the universe's gravitational wave ...
Inverse

Scientists Just Heard the Hum of Giant Black Holes — Here's How They'll Pinpoint the Source

Astronomers just discovered a background “hum” of low-frequency gravitational waves constantly rippling through the universe — but what’s next? When two galaxies merge, the supermassive black holes at ...
IFLScience

Surprise Anomaly In Gravitational Wave Background Hints At Supermassive Black Hole Collision

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...
New Atlas

Astronomers may have detected background ripples in spacetime itself

The gravitational waves we’ve detected so far have been like tsunamis in the spacetime sea, but it’s believed that gentle ripples should also pervade the universe. Now, a 13-year survey of light from ...
The Daily Beast

Scientists May Have Finally Heard the ‘Hum’ of the Big Bang

Things are about to change in a supermassive way in the world of astrophysics. An international team of scientists have discovered evidence for a new type of signal they have long searched for—one ...
Ars Technica

NANOGrav hears “hum” of gravitational wave background, louder than expected

Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of spacetime predicted by Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity, first detected in 2015. But an expected corresponding low-frequency ...
Max Planck Society

Cosmic cartography – mapping the gravitational wave background

As an international collaboration of radio astronomers from Australia, Germany, the UK, South Africa, the Netherlands, Italy and France, the MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array (MPTA) has created a ...