A record-breaking black hole smash-up just expanded our view of the universe’s most extreme inhabitants. Is our cosmos just a membrane on the edge of a far stranger reality? These black holes’ masses ...

Physicists have detected the biggest ever merger of colliding black holes. The discovery has major implications for researchers’ understanding of how such bodies grow in the Universe. “It’s super ...

We may be able to spot enormous alien spacecraft by the gravitational waves they would create. Gravitational waves are ripples in space-time formed when a massive object moves around, so if there are ...

A new preprint study posted toarXiv by a team at Applied Physics in New York suggests that LIGO – the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory – might be able to detect something far more ...