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Neutron stars

LIGO beam calibration

LIGO starts its fourth round of searching for gravitational waves and black holes

After three years of upgrading and waiting, due in part to the coronavirus pandemic, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory has… Read More

Christine Ye

Seattle-area high school senior awarded $250,000 for gravitational wave research

Christine Ye, a senior at Eastlake High School in Sammamish, Wash., has won the top award in the nation’s oldest… Read More

Black holes

Black hole or neutron star? Gravitational waves bring a cosmic conundrum to light

Telltale ripples in the fabric of spacetime have revealed the existence of a cosmic object that scientists can’t definitively classify.… Read More

Black hole and neutron star

Has LIGO detected its first smash-up of black hole and neutron star? Stay tuned

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO,  has detected mergers of black holes, and even a couple of neutron star… Read More

LIGO Hanford scientists

LIGO and Virgo recap smashups, including hints of a black hole eating a neutron star

The science teams for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO, and Europe’s Virgo detector today laid out the details… Read More

LIGO upgrade

LIGO and Virgo detectors get in sync for gravitational-wave hunt that’ll last a year

Physicists won’t be fooling around on April 1 at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory in Washington state and Louisiana, or… Read More

Black hole and accretion disk

Gravitational waves get to play a starring role in ‘Black Hole Apocalypse’ on TV

Black holes are the collapsed stars of the show on “Black Hole Apocalypse,” a two-hour “NOVA” presentation that’s premiering Wednesday… Read More

Neutron star smashup

Science year in review: Neutron star smashup is the gift that keeps on giving

For the second year in a row, the journal Science is hailing a discovery sparked by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave… Read More

Neutron star merger

A cosmic first! Gravitational waves and telescopes reveal the clash and flash of neutron stars

For the first time ever, researchers have recorded the cataclysmic smash-up of two neutron stars by virtue of their gravitational… Read More

Neutron star collision

Gravitational wave hubbub hints at LIGO’s first sighting of a neutron star smash-up

Another big announcement about gravitational waves is coming up, and this time the hints point to  observations in electromagnetic wavelengths… Read More

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