Paul Adams
at 12:27 PM Feb 18 2016
Science // 

When many of us first heard about gravitational waves and saw Robert Hurt's dramatic depiction of those undulations in the fabric of spacetime caused by the mammoth collision of a pair of black holes, we were awed. Nathan Myhrvold, the polymath behind Modernist Cuisine, was awed, but he was inspired as well. To make a soup bowl.

Chad Hanna / The Conversation
at 11:28 AM Feb 12 2016

The best thing about a day in my life on the lookout for gravitational waves is that I never know when it will begin.

Jason Lederman
at 11:28 AM Feb 12 2016

On Thursday, the scientists at LIGO announced they'd officially found gravitational waves. This truly is a remarkable discovery, and confirms the final piece of Einstein's general theory of relativity. Read more about the announcement, and what it means for science, here. And check out our gravitational waves explainer for more background on this scientific phenomenon.

Carl Franzen
at 11:27 AM Feb 12 2016

"Chirp!" That's the sound of the long-sought gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of spacetime, according to an announcement today from scientists working on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) experiment.

Sophie Bushwick
at 11:27 AM Feb 12 2016

For months, the science world has been buzzing about the rumor that gravitational waves, the ripples in spacetime that Einstein predicted a hundred years ago, have finally been detected. Today, at press conferences all over the world, researchers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) confirmed that the hype is true.

Sophie Bushwick
at 15:48 PM Jan 13 2016
Science // 

Physicists have been buzzing (or rather, tweeting) about the possibility that the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) experiment finally discovered gravitational waves. LIGO has been searching for these cosmic ripples for over a decade. Last September, it upgraded to Advanced-LIGO, a more sensitive system that's also better at filtering out noise. Advanced-LIGO has a much stronger chance of collecting concrete evidence of gravitational waves—if it hasn't already.

Rafi Letzter
at 09:36 AM Nov 5 2014
Space // 

Black holes aren't just ultra-massive collapsed stars that trap light with the sheer force of their gravitational waves. They're also very difficult objects to model--especially when they interact with other black holes. This image from a recent study represents a good first impression of what two black holes might look like as they come close to slamming into one another. There are only two bodies pictured, but their mass bends the starlight around them in strange ways, creating the impression of several orbs.

 
1 2 ...
Sign up for the Pop Sci newsletter
Australian Popular Science
ON SALE 31 AUGUST
PopSci Live