Tag: LIGO

New research has shown that mountains on the surface of neutron stars could be millimetres tall.

Not only do gravitational waves represent the ultimate confirmation of the theory of General Relativity, they will provide us with ...

The black hole is the first object of its kind with a mass above 100 solar masses but below a ...

Supermassive black holes sat at the centre of active galaxies could have company. Binary pairs of these titanic cosmic objects ...

What's a good way to baffle astronomers? Send a 14 millisecond gravitational wave signal. At least that's what the Universe ...

The uncertainty principle provides a constant hindrance to the sensitivity of equipment such as LIGO's interferometer and new research shows, ...

It could be something heavy, so tune in!