William Basinski looks back on ‘Disintegration Loops’ and dying mediaA new documentary at SXSW explores the serendipitous ode to uncertainty.By T. O'Brien, 03.22.2021
Astronomers spot a super-rare class of black hole for the first timeNever before has an intermediate-mass black hole been directly observed.By A. Tarantola, 09.02.2020
Astronomers may have spotted light from colliding black holesIt would be the first known instance of a visible collision.By J. Fingas, 06.28.2020
Astronomers are puzzled by a mysterious dead starIt’s either the heaviest neutron star or the lightest black hole.By M. DeAngelis, 06.24.2020
Astronomers just measured a whole lot more than gravitational wavesResearchers around the world are collecting troves of new data from this latest event.By M. Locklear, 10.16.2017
Nobel Prize for Physics awarded to gravitational wave scientistsThey were recognized for their work at LIGO and Virgo.By S. Krishna, 10.03.2017
Scientists record a fourth set of gravitational wavesThis time with three detectors, giving scientists more information about where they came from.By M. Locklear, 09.27.2017
New computer models could direct scientists to epic cosmic eventsThis is what happens when a neutron star collides with a black hole.By S. Shah, 08.07.2017
LIGO astronomers detect third black hole collisionThis gravitational wave observation gives us new insight into how black holes form.By S. Krishna, 06.01.2017
Caltech fires up LIGO to hunt for more gravitational wavesThe system will now peer further into space for longer periods in search of more black hole mergers.By A. Tarantola, 12.01.2016
Physicists create a 'quantum ruler' to measure the universeA new method could increase LIGO's sensitivity and precision.By A. Dalton, 06.23.2016
Computer simulations point to the source of gravitational wavesThe ripples detected last September came from a collision of two black holes that happened over a billion years ago.By D. Lumb, 06.23.2016
The first gravitational wave discovery wasn't a flukeLIGO data shows that at least one other black hole collision triggered gravity ripples.By J. Fingas, 06.15.2016
Dark matter might be made of black holesWe would have to rethink how the universe was formed. By D. Lumb, 06.14.2016
'Goopy' dark matter could offer a new vision of the early universeIf a new model is correct, dark matter once behaved like a fluid.By A. Dalton, 05.10.2016
LIGO team wins $3 million prize for gravitational wave discoveryMeanwhile, Einstein gets nothing.By A. Dalton, 05.04.2016
Astronomers are using pulsars to spot gravitational wavesThe steady signals from a "pulsar web" could help us detect minute vibrations in our planet. By S. Dent, 02.25.2016
Inhabitat's Week in Green: Tesla's most affordable EV, and more!The Model 3 will start at a relatively affordable $35,000, but even at that price it will have competition.By Inhabitat, 02.14.2016
ICYMI: Ripples in Spacetime, brain jolts to learn and more100 years later, scientists confirm that Einstein was right. By K. Davis, 02.12.2016