Jackie explains that a laser inside the tubes is split, bounces off mirrors, and goes straight back to sensors at the center ...

Calculations had shown that LIGO was barely at the sensitivity threshold necessary to detect gravitational waves. So in 2010, LIGO was shut down for various upgrades, to the tune of more than $200 ...

A novel way to find aliens might be through gravitational wave detection, Loeb says. He is interested in laser interferometry ...

Gravitational waves, those minuscule ripples in spacetime, have revolutionized our understanding of the Universe since their ...

Artificial intelligence could offer a powerful pathway to supercharge our ability to "hear" the universe, according to new ...

How gravitational waves might emanate from a white dwarf binary. At LIGO’s second facility, in Louisiana, engineers inspect the tunnels. Practically every action makes gravitational waves—you ...

A scientist from Tokyo Metropolitan University has solved the longstanding problem of a “dissonance” in gravitational waves emitted by a black hole. Using high precision computing and a new ...

Dr. Mario Krenn, head of the research group Artificial Scientist Lab at MPL, in collaboration with the team of LIGO ("Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory"), who built those ...

which would not be detectable by an existing gravitational wave detector like LIGO, but we might be able to build one that can. Ultimately we’d be acting on conjecture on what a warp bubble ...

While current gravitational wave detectors — such as Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) and its sister site Virgo — have proven very successful, a new study argues ...