The loudest black hole collision ever recorded has just given Einstein’s theory of general relativity its hardest test so far. The event, dubbed GW250114, produced a record-smashing signal-to-noise ...

The loudest gravitational wave ever recorded, GW250114, has travelled 1.3 billion light-years to Earth, reinforcing Einstein's century-old theory of relativity.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When two massive objects – like black holes or neutron stars – merge, they warp space and time. Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Installation of in-vacuum equipment as a part of the squeezed-light upgrade before Advanced LIGO’s third observing run. LIGO team ...

Earth is awash in gravitational waves. Over a six-month period, scientists captured a bounty of 39 sets of gravitational waves. The waves, which stretch and squeeze the fabric of spacetime, were ...

After a year of downtime to perform hardware upgrades, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is ready for action and will turn on its twin detectors, one in Washington state ...