Gravitational Waves

Is Gravity Quantum?

The ongoing search for the graviton — the proposed fundamental particle carrying gravitational force — is a crucial step in physicists’ long journey toward a theory of everything.

Scientific American

Harvard, MIT Scientists Propose New Method to Measure Universe’s Expansion

Scientists from Harvard and MIT could have the key to discovering how the universe began and whether it will continue expanding or eventually collapse.

The Boston Globe

Maybe We Could “See” a Singularity After All

When black holes collide, interactions between their cores might leave an imprint on the resulting gravitational waves.

Scientific American

Gravitational Waves Could Help Scientists Solve A Major Black Hole Mystery

Astrophysicists at Brown University and Harvard University who study gravitational waves say these ripples in the fabric of space and time could help them investigate the possible existence of a very specific kind of black hole, one that hypothetically formed right after the big bang.

Inverse

What the Neutron Star Collision Means for Dark Matter

The latest LIGO observations rekindle a fiery debate over how gravity works: Does the universe include dark matter, or doesn’t it?

Smithsonian

Scientists Detect Gravitational Waves From a New Kind of Nova, Sparking a New Era in Astronomy

For the first time, scientists observed a cosmic phenomenon using both gravitational wave detectors and traditional telescopes, starting a new kind of astrophysics.

The Washington Post

New Gravitational Wave Detection From Colliding Black Holes

In another step forward for the rapidly expanding universe of invisible astronomy, scientists said they had recorded the space-time reverberations known as gravitational waves from the collision of a pair of black holes 1.8 billion light years away from here.

The New York Times