A new effort to map the rumblings in spacetime caused by enormous black hole collisions paints a surprisingly loud and ...

In a groundbreaking study, researchers have developed optical spring tracking to enhance signal clarity in gravitational-wave ...

For half a century, astrophysicists have been trying to solve the Black Hole Information Paradox—first explained by Stephen ...

Einstein's theory of general relativity describes the inevitability of singularities, which are obscured by black holes ...

As black holes slowly vanish through Hawking radiation, their information may be preserved in subtle space-time ripples, a ...

Gravitational waves were originally predicted by Albert ... theory states that objects with mass cause the very fabric of space and time (united as a 4-dimensional entity called "spacetime ...

Entire atoms have been put through a classic quantum experiment for the first time and the breakthrough could lead to better ...

The study has also produced the largest ever galactic-scale gravitational wave ... "background" of gravitational waves: invisible yet incredibly fast ripples in space that can help unlock some ...

When I asked readers on social media for suggestions about the coolest things they’ve seen in spaceflight during the last 25 ...

It uses extremely precise signals from pulsars—spinning neutron stars that emit regular radio pulses—to detect tiny ripples in space and time, called gravitational waves. This method is ...

The technique also requires prior information about an incoming gravitational wave, which could be obtained using proposed space-based detectors like LISA. "This dynamic tracking technique ...