Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO)
The first space-based observatory designed to detect gravitational waves has passed a major review and will proceed to the construction…
Stephen Lesage’s phone started vibrating just after halftime on Oct. 9, 2022, while he was watching a soccer game in…
Gamma-ray bursts are the brightest, most violent explosions in the universe, but they can be surprisingly tricky to detect. Our…
Just about every galaxy the size of our Milky Way (or bigger) has a supermassive black hole at its center.…
Black holes are some of the most bizarre and fascinating objects in the cosmos. Astronomers want to study lots of…
Come springtime you might be ready to throw open the windows and break out the feather duster, because that’s a…
In October 2017, for the first time, astronomers observed light and gravitational waves from the same source.
