The LIGO project's gravitational-wave detector facility in Livingston, Louisiana. Seven years ago, researchers with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) reported the first ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --University of Chicago physics professor Daniel Holz might not have won the Nobel Prize, but he did play a role in ground-breaking research that helped three other scientists become the ...

PASADENA, Calif.– The Advanced LIGO Project, an upgrade in sensitivity for LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatories), was approved by the National Science Board in its meeting on ...

Decades before the detection of ripples in space-time announced this month, a group of physics professors, business leaders and public officials saw an opportunity to bring a cutting-edge science ...

The Nobel Prize-winning project that hunts for gravitational waves— ripples in space and time—is about to begin the longest and most sensitive observational run to date. The National Science ...

The scientists and engineers who made the first-ever direct detection of gravitational waves are now $3 million richer. In February, researchers with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave ...

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration recently began a new observing run that promises to take gravitational-wave astronomy to the next level. According to scientists from across the ...

HANFORD, Wash. — Across the tapestry of the night sky, hundreds or perhaps thousands of stars are doing frantic dances of death, spinning wildly around each other and shooting off waves of invisible ...

Aerial view of LIGO Hanford Observatory. Photo undated. A still frame from a computer animation shows two binary neutron stars coalescing into a black hole. Taken from the video, "LIGO, A Passion for ...

PASADENA, Calif.– An analysis by the international LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) Scientific Collaboration has excluded one previously leading explanation for the origin of ...

For the LIGO observatory on Washington’s Hanford site, noise is a real buzz killer. Any earthly sound — a truck rumbling past, the humming of a refrigerator in a nearby building, or the distant ...

Seven years ago, researchers with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) reported the first detection of gravitational waves. Now, the list of gravitational wave candidates ...