Daylight Savings Time Is So Bad, It’s Messing With Our View of the Cosmos
Tracking gravitational waves—invisible ripples in space-time from intense astronomical events—pushes the limits of what astronomers must do to…
Federal cuts threaten research at observatory, a decade after historic discovery
LIVINGSTON PARISH, La. (WAFB) – A decade ago, researchers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detected ripples…
Scientists Found a Black Hole That Shouldn’t Exist. Now Physics Has a Problem.
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Over the past decade, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) network has…
Astronomers Detect a Black Hole Merger That’s So Massive It Shouldn’t Exist
Gravitational waves—ripples in space-time caused by violent cosmic events—travel at the speed of light in every direction, eventually…