The science of studying gravitational waves just got a big boost thanks to the European Space Agency. Its science program committee just approved the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna—affection ...

Humanity's first space-based gravitational wave detector has received the go-ahead. The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission, which consists of three spacecraft that together form a ...

The frequencies of gravitational waves that can be observed with LISA lie in a very slowly oscillating range from a few hundred thousandths up to about one Hertz (oscillations per second). This makes ...

The size and spin of black holes can reveal how and where they were born, and gravitational waves offer a way to decode this ...

Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole ...

This understanding is crucial for improving the design and operation of future gravitational wave observatories. Moreover, the insights gained from the LISA Pathfinder mission are being applied to ...

MIT astronomers have been captivated by the strange behaviors of a supermassive black located 270 million light-years away, ...

For half a century, astrophysicists have been trying to solve the Black Hole Information Paradox—first explained by Stephen Hawking in 1976—which posits that black holes destroy information. That ...

The weird outbursts of a distant supermassive black hole may be caused by a death-defying white dwarf walking a cosmic tight rope around it.

Rather than relying on a cheek swab or a little blood, however, these cosmic DNA tests utilize tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves, first proposed by Albert Einstein ...