Three leaders of the LIGO collaboration’s Sept. 14, 2015, observation of gravitational waves shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics. A number of William & Mary scientists were participants in the LIGO ...

When incredibly massive objects collide violently in space, they send out ripples in space-time that reverberate through the cosmos for billions of years. Long after the collisions happen, these ...

Scientists Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for their roles in creating the LIGO experiment. Three scientists who made essential contributions to the LIGO ...

Colliding black holes and neutron stars create ripples in spacetime, called gravitational waves. These were "heard" for the first time in September 2015. On Monday, a pair of gravitational-wave ...

Barish explains how LIGO became the high-achieving experiment it is today. These days the LIGO experiment seems almost unstoppable. In September 2015, LIGO detected gravitational waves directly for ...

It's not a fluke: For the third time, scientists have detected ripples in space-time caused when two black holes circle each other at mind-bending speeds and collide. The LIGO gravitational-wave ...

ONE of the biggest bits of science news in 2016 was the announcement, in February, that gravitational waves had been detected for the first time. A prediction of Albert Einstein’s theory of general ...

Much to their surprise, scientists are finding dozens of black holes deep within densely packed collections of stars called globular clusters. Astrophysicists everywhere are thrilled about yesterday's ...

Astronomers have announced a new batch of discoveries of gravitational waves—ripples in space-time caused by cataclysmic cosmic events. The haul consists of four mergers of black holes that were ...

Astronomers have announced a new batch of discoveries of gravitational waves — ripples in space-time caused by cataclysmic cosmic events. The haul consists of four mergers of black holes that were ...

In some ways, it was a typical Southern California scene. Late Tuesday morning, two men found themselves surrounded by an entourage of friends, family and publicists and preceded by a gaggle of ...

It's not a fluke: For the third time, scientists have detected ripples in space-time caused when two black holes circle each other at mind-bending speeds and collide. The LIGO gravitational-wave ...