Scientists have observed a new type of black hole that is too heavy to have been born from a star but still too slim to … The ...

In a new study, physicists propose that superconducting magnets from dark matter experiments that are originally designed to ...

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration released a catalog of results from the first half of its third observing run (O3a), and scientists have detected more than three times as many ...

LIGO changed that. Last year, the collaboration announced that its twin detectors had picked up a passing distortion in late 2015 caused by two black holes crashing into each other.

LIGO detected the first-ever confirmed gravitational waves in 2016. Around the same time, its operators were thinking about ways to weed out the quantum disturbances.

As LIGO's sensitivity becomes better and better, and as more detectors come online, our capabilities allow us to detect more of these waves, and the cataclysmic events that generate them, ...

LIGO is based on mirrors separated by kilometers reflecting laser beams back and forth multiple times. And those laser beams are composed of photons that obey the rules of quantum mechanics.

(LIGO was last booted up in November and ran through August.) After the new work is finished in 2018, he said, LIGO should have a 50% boost in range, allowing it to gaze another 500 million light ...

How does LIGO's detection of a second gravitational wave add to what we know about this phenomenon? This question was originally answered on Quora by Shern Ren Tee.

For 13 years LIGO heard, it seemed, every vibration but the one it was supposed to. But on September 14, 2015 it detected those black-hole-crashing swells as they washed over the planet.

LIGO is called an observatory, but it isn’t like any astronomical observatory you might be imagining. Each site—there are two currently—is actually a big, L-shaped tube called an interferometer.

LIGO detected gravitational waves created from the collision between two black holes. The detection was awesome, but let's look at the name of the detector for a second: Laser Interferometer ...