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Gravitational waves could help us find out how fast the universe's expansion is accelerating
By Robert Lea published
Gravitational waves from merging black holes distorted due to a phenomenon predicted by Einstein could be a new way of measuring the rate of cosmic expansion.
The universe is humming with gravitational waves. Here's why scientists are so excited about the discovery
By Robert Lea published
The very fabric of the universe is ringing with gravitational waves from its earliest epoch, and researchers have finally "heard" this cosmic symphony.
The gravitational wave background of the universe has been heard for the 1st time
By Sharmila Kuthunur published
In a historic first, astronomers have detected low-frequency gravitational waves using a galaxy-sized antenna of millisecond pulsars in the Milky Way.
Gravitational waves may come from 'cocoons' of debris around dying stars (video)
By Sharmila Kuthunur published
Astronomers have created the first model for how debris around exploding stars could emit gravitational waves powerful enough to be detected by instruments on Earth.
LIGO project begins new gravitational wave hunt
By Rahul Rao published
May 24 marked the start of Observation Run 4, the latest gravitational-wave hunting effort of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration. But only LIGO is fully operational at the moment.
Violent origins of gravitational waves probed by new telescope array
By Robert Lea published
The new BlackGEM array will hunt for black hole mergers and neutron star collisions, cataclysmic events that generate ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves.
India will start building new gravitational wave observatory
By Sharmila Kuthunur published
On April 6, the Indian government greenlit the construction of a Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) facility in the western state of Maharashtra.
Curious cosmic coincidence could help explain fast radio burst mystery
By Briley Lewis published
Two mysterious cosmic phenomena appeared in the same patch of sky nearly at once, and it may not be a coincidence.
What are gravitational waves?
By Robert Lea last updated
Reference Gravitational waves are tiny ripples in the fabric of time and space that are created by some of the universe's most powerful events such as colliding black holes.
Faint gravitational waves may be from primordial fractures in space-time
By Paul Sutter published
The early universe may have been such a violent place that space-time itself fractured like a pane of glass, releasing gravitational waves that astronomers say we may have already detected.
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