Why Do Black Holes Form? Black holes form when a huge amount of matter is squeezed into a very small space. Cram enough ...

"LIGO is bringing us a new way to observe some ... She took a ride in weightlessness on a zero-gravity flight and watched rockets launch to space from places around the United States.

The force of gravity is transmitted through spacetime at the speed of light, which creates wavefronts we can detect with special equipment like the LIGO gravitational wave detectors. In classical ...

The new adaptive optical devices are designed to deliver ring-like targeted heating patterns to the surface of the 34-cm-diameter core optics in LIGO to control the effect of increasing thermal ...

"We can observe the universe in this new way; not using light, but using gravity," physicist Brian Greene told Mashable in an interview. As one LIGO scientist pointed out, the discovery is akin to ...

These include gravitational waves, which would not be detectable by an existing gravitational wave detector like LIGO, but we might be able to build one that can. Ultimately we’d be acting on ...

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