Martin Hendry from the University of Glasgow speaks about what LIGO is, how it works, and the engineering challenges involved in building a gravitational wave detector. Artists rendition of two black ...

A team of researchers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), in the U.S., has developed what they describe as a squeezed light system to improve detection sensitivity.

The best place to observe the stars is among them, which is why Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope have been deployed outside Earth's murky atmosphere. At least, that's the case when you're ...

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO, has already won its researchers a Nobel Prize — and now artificial intelligence is poised to take LIGO’s search for cosmic collisions ...

Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of spacetime that travel at the speed of light. These are produced in some of the most violent events in the universe, such as black-hole mergers, ...

Scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology anticipate ushering in the era of gravitational wave astronomy within the decade as part of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, or ...

Researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) have engineered new optical coatings for LIGO, the global collaboration hunting gravitational waves from colliding black holes and neutron ...

After a series of instrument upgrades, LIGO is coming back online April 1 to search for fainter gravitational waves around the universe. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in ...

The first direct detection of gravitational waves by Advanced LIGO in September 2015 has officially launched the era of gravitational-wave astronomy, bringing a plethora of new astrophysics to our ...