When LIGO detected gravitational waves unleashed from two colliding black holes for the first time in science history, it set ...

Gravitational-wave detection technology is poised to make a big leap forward thanks to an instrumentation advance led by physicist Jonathan Richardson of the University of California, Riverside. A ...

Scientists first detected ripples in space known as gravitational waves from the merger of two black holes in September 2015. This discovery marked the culmination of a 100-year quest to prove one of ...

First, gravitational waves proved Einstein correct. Now, they’ve confirmed Stephen Hawking was right about black holes.

Compared to the drawn-out chirps of black hole binaries on decaying orbital spirals, it was a sharp crack. The best ...

After watching that, I joked with a friend that the gravity we feel every day is actually a result of space-time being ...

Check out what's happening each day this week in Baton Rouge, including LSU Family Weekend, a sushi cooking class, and other ...

Scott Detrow talks to Lulu Miller, the host of Radiolab's Terrestrials podcast, about her conversation with the scientist Wanda Diaz-Merced, who studies gravitational waves that ripple through ...

In 1972, Stephen Hawking published a seminal study showing that as two black holes merge, the surface area of the final event ...

Astrophysicists have measured the recoil resulting from the birth of a new black hole that formed from the merger of two ...

Gravity waves are a type of cloud pattern that have little to do with gravity and more to do with the waves. Think of a rock being thrown in a lake or pond and the ripples it creates. As the ripples ...

When two massive objects – like black holes or neutron stars – merge, they warp space and time. Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library Scientists first detected ripples in space known as gravitational ...