A physicist has proposed a bold experiment that could allow gravitational waves to be manipulated using laser light. By ...

Decades ago physicists realized that gravitational waves are no mere passing phenomenon. Instead those ripples in space should leave behind permanent marks: a fixed distortion in their wake. So far ...

Scientists are using pulsars to detect the gravitational wave 'hum' created from supermassive black hole mergers. Credit: ...

In its wake, a new supermassive black hole formed over 60 times bigger than our Sun. Fast forward to September 2015, ...

Astronomers used gravitational lensing to detect a supernova 10 billion light-years away, providing spatially separated images that help study cosmic expansion and early Universe events.

This visualization shows the merging of two black holes, which emit gravitational waves. © N. Fischer, S. Ossokine, H. Pfeiffer, A. Buonanno (Max Planck Institute ...

Astronomers and astrophysicists at five different pulsar timing array collaborations today announced data that strongly suggests the presence of a gravitational wave background: a constant murmur of ...

Gravitational-wave signals are like fingerprints. They allow astrophysicists to find the culprit for a signal they detect. Moreover, the researchers can infer many properties of the source that ...

After a three-year hiatus, scientists in the U.S. have just turned on detectors capable of measuring gravitational waves—tiny ripples in space itself that travel through the universe. Unlike light ...

Two stellar mass black holes, if they merge in the vicinity of a supermassive black hole, could have their gravitational wave signal affected by the strongly curved space around them. If Einstein's ...