LIGO Detects Merging Ripples in Space and Time
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) has made a third detection of gravitational waves, ripples in space and time, demonstrating that a new window in…
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Advanced LIGO Looks to Reveal the Mystery of Merging Black Holes
Astrophysicists have been hard at work trying to determine how black holes can come together and merge. A newly published study from the University of…
LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves Again
The twin Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) has detected gravitational waves for the second time. The signal was produced by two black holes colliding 1.4…
Fermi Observations Poised to Pin Down Gravitational Wave Sources
Fermi observations are helping researchers gain a much deeper understanding of gravitational waves. On September 14, waves of energy traveling for more than a billion…
New Research Shows LIGO’s Twin Black Holes Might Have Been Born Inside a Single Star
Newly published research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics suggests that the burst detected by LIGO occurred because the two black holes lived and died…