WVU astronomer Emmanuel Fonseca, second from right, uses data from the Green Bank and CHIME radio telescopes to hunt for gravitational waves. (WVU Photo/Brian Persinger) MORGANTOWN — Researchers from ...

On Sept. 14, 2015 astronomers “heard” two black holes crashing into each other at close to the speed of light. This discovery was a watershed moment in physics and astrophysics, heralding an entirely ...

A team from Côte d’Azur University developed a machine learning algorithm that can detect and interpret gravity waves produced by seismic events at the speed of light. Share on Facebook (opens in a ...

The newly detected gravitational wave background could be the result of supermassive black hole binaries that orbit each other for a few million years before merging. By now you’ll have seen the news ...

Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of space. Waves that originated in the early universe could carry important information about the phenomena that occurred there. When you purchase through ...

So far, astrophysicists have only detected gravitational waves from binary systems — the mergers of either two black holes, two neutron stars or one of each. Although astrophysicists theoretically ...

Following 15 years of data collection in a galaxy-sized experiment, scientists have “heard” the perpetual chorus of gravitational waves rippling through our universe for the first time — and it’s ...

Until now, we’ve only detected gravitational waves originating in binary systems, from the merger of black holes or neutron stars. But researchers from Northwestern University have potentially ...

Stephen Hawking's 50-year-old theorem on how black holes merge together has been successfully tested thanks to huge advances in gravitational wave astronomy, which helped astronomers catch the waves ...

The violent collision and merger of two black holes emits gravitational waves—ripples in spacetime—that can cause the resulting newborn black hole to recoil and rapidly move, sometimes escaping its ...

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The size and spin of black holes can reveal how they are formed and where they were born. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. You can ...