The gravitational wave detector LIGO is being put through its paces during an eight-week test phase. Scientists in the US have just switched on LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave ...
Ever since the historic discovery of gravitational waves by the Laser Interferometry Gravitational wave Observatory (LIGO), scientists have been trying to amend and refine that data. The original idea ...
Our sun was still dim. Waves crashed on martian beaches. Life was emerging on Earth. That’s when the ghosts of two dead stars — black holes dozens of times more massive than our sun — merged in a ...