For the second time in history, scientists have directly detected gravitational waves. And just like that, a new era of astronomy is underway. Like the first gravitational wave detected, scientists ...

The discovery of gravitational waves has ushered in a new era of astronomy, and thanks to data from LIGO – the gravitational wave observatory – we can now study the black hole mergers that cause them.

There was a secret inside the envelope in the hands of Stephan Schlamminger, one of the world’s leading experts in experimental tests of gravity. He appeared to be on the verge of opening the envelope ...

Dean of the MIT School of Science Nergis Mavalvala – one of the astrophysicists who first directly detected gravitational waves – gave a lecture on the scientific history of gravitational waves ...

The earliest and most momentous epoch in the history of the universe released a flood of gravitational waves, tiny ripples in the fabric of space-time. Now, new research shows how future detections of ...

On February 11, 2016, ecstatic scientists worldwide basked in the announcement that the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) had detected gravitational waves produced by the ...

Matthew Bailes receives funding from the Australian Research Council to perform fundamental science and is the Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav). One ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. In a moment over 100 years in the making, the 2017 Nobel Prize in ...