Similar to gravitational observatories on Earth, the laser light is the crucial component of the detector. Gravitational ...

With LISA, ESA plans to catch gravitational waves from space, using a triangle of spacecraft millions of kilometers ...

For decades, scientists have believed there should be black holes that fall between two well-known types. On one end are ...

In a groundbreaking development,the European Space Agency (ESA) has officially begun construction of its Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission. The mission, which aims to study ...

Researchers aim to explore hidden aspects of the universe that could fundamentally transform our understanding of the cosmos ...

In a recently published paper in Physical Review Letters, scientists propose a comprehensive theoretical framework indicating that gravitational wave signals from black hole mergers are more complex ...

LISA Pathfinder, a mission led by the European Space Agency (ESA) with contributions from NASA, has successfully tested a key technology needed to build a space-based observatory for detecting ...

Gravitational waves are generated by some of the most violent events in the universe: the collision of black holes, the merging of neutron stars, the core collapse of massive stars. These events ...

University College Dublin (UCD) researchers Assoc Prof Barry Wardell and Prof Kylie Jarrett to receive a total of €5 million for projects exploring ...

Astronomers confirm ‘lite intermediate’ black holes, too large for ordinary stars, revealing clues about early stellar origins.