Cosmologists have long hypothesized that the conditions of the early universe could have caused the formation of black holes not…
The gravitational wave background was first detected in 2016. It was announced following the release of the first data set…
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We’ve now had multiple detections of gravitational waves, opening up a whole new field: gravitational astronomy. We talk about the…
The Big Bang was a tremendous theory, but it had a few problems. In 1980 Alan Guth developed the revolutionary…
Time to brush up on your gravitational wave basics, if you haven't done so! In Gravitational waves and how they…
It's official: on February 11, 10:30 EST, there will be a big press conference about gravitational waves by the people…
Two white dwarfs similar to those in the system SDSS J065133.338+284423.37 spiral together in this illustration from NASA. Credit: D.…