LIGO
LIGO's Four Gravitational Wave Detections Come From Off-Kilter Black Hole Mergers
“You don’t write a paper saying: This is awesome! But we kind of have that feeling. It’s definitely a frontier.”
These Floating Golden Cubes Proved We Can Detect Cosmic Ripples in Space
The mission paves the way for its big sister, LISA, that will listen for the collisions of galaxies and the explosions of massive stars.
The Sound of Two Black Holes Colliding Is Music to Szabolcs Marka’s Ears
“It was life-changing in the way that the world started to share our vision. The world started to believe with us.”
One of the Greatest Cosmic Mysteries Was Solved By David Shoemaker’s Device
LIGO's detection of gravitational waves was an achievement comparable to Galileo’s telescope. Meet the man whose team built the detector.
Gravitational Waves Are Just Everyday Astrophysics Now
This week's announcement of a second LIGO detection is likely just the start.
Some Astrophysicists Think LIGO May Have Spotted a Dark Matter Signal
Revisiting a fringe theory of black holes and missing matter.
Did LIGO's Gravitational Waves Really Come from Merging Black Holes?
We can't give up on gravastars yet, argues a new paper.
Europe Is Testing Its Gravitational Wave Detector Tech in Space
The LISA Pathfinder mission is testing technology for a different type of gravitational wave detector—1.5 million kilometres from Earth.
An Astrophysicist Explains That Whole Deal with the Colliding Black Holes and Gravity Waves
Professor Alan Duffy explains the method behind the gravitational scientific discovery
Why Gravitational Physicists Don't Sleep at Night
Meeting the people behind the gravitational wave discovery.