Gravitational waves news, articles and features

Physics

Gravitational waves spark hunt for cosmic strings and dark matter

The discovery of low-level ripples throughout the universe called the gravitational wave background has set physicists looking for exotic explanations

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Physics

Gravitational waves produce a background hum across the whole universe

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The Matter-wave laser Interferometric Gravitation Antenna

Physics

Gravitational wave hunters will get an ultracool new tool in 2023

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)

Space

LIGO may be able to detect alien warp drives using gravitational waves

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Space

Gravitational waves could let us find tiny black holes devouring stars

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Physics

How a new kind of gravitational wave will reveal the early universe

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Space

Strange gravitational wave echoes may let us probe dark matter

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Space

Two black holes merged to form a huge one moving at incredible speeds

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Space

Quantum nature of gravity may be detectable with gravitational waves

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Space

We’ve caught a black hole devouring a neutron star for the first time

Astronomers have definitively detected a black hole devouring a neutron star for the first – and second – time. These cataclysmic events created ripples in space-time called gravitational waves that travelled more than 900 million light years to reach detectors on Earth

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