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Much to their surprise, scientists are finding dozens of black holes deep within densely packed collections of stars called globular clusters. This happened when a wave-hunting experiment called LIGO, ...

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 ...

When two massive objects – like black holes or neutron stars – merge, they warp space and time. Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library via Getty Images After a three-year hiatus, scientists in the U.S.

On September 14th, 2015, less than 72 hours after it began operation at it's current sensitivity, an incredible event unfolded at each of the twin LIGO detectors in Washington and Louisiana: an event ...

After a year of downtime to perform hardware upgrades, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is ready for action and will turn on its twin detectors, one in Washington state ...

Gravitational waves send text messages directly to Chad Hanna’s cellphone. His team’s computer codes—all 250,000 of them—constantly listen to the heavens for the telltale sound of a ripple through ...

New mirror coatings will increase the volume of space LIGO can probe in its next run. Since LIGO's groundbreaking detection, in 2015, of gravitational waves produced by a pair of colliding black holes ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Adam Hadhazy, writer and editor for The Kavli Foundation, contributed this article to Space.com's ...