ESA and NASA have green lit the LISA mission, striving to uncover the secrets of the ripples in the fabric of space-time
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LIGO detects gravitational waves for the third time
This is the most distant gravitational wave source detected yet
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LISA Pathfinder to be used as ‘comet crumb’ detector
The mission has successfully demonstrated critical technologies needed to build a space-based observatory capable of detecting slight ripples in space-time
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Earth’s Moon could have formed from little moonlets
Our natural satellite could be the last in a series of moons that orbited our planet in the past
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LIGO observatory continues hunt for gravitational waves
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory has turned back on and resumed its search for ripples in the fabric of space and time
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Gravitational waves detected from second pair of colliding black holes
Scientists have observed ripples in the fabric of space-time for the second time
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Hot alien world found around triple star system
The phenomenon has only been documented a few times before
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Hubble spots supermassive stars
Astronomers have identified nine monster stars with masses over 100 times the mass of the Sun in the star cluster R136
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Astronomers clock the spin rate of a supermassive black hole
The rotational rate of one of the most massive black holes in the universe has been measured
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LIGO’s twin black holes may have been born inside a single star
“It’s the cosmic equivalent of a pregnant woman carrying twins inside her belly,” says Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb
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BREAKING: Gravitational waves detected for the very first time
The finding confirms a major prediction of Albert Einstein’s 1915 general theory of relativity and opens an unprecedented new window to the universe
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LISA Pathfinder launch: “We’re looking for violent things!”
We caught up with Paul McNamara, lead scientist of LISA Pathfinder, before the mission’s launch
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Hottest and most massive double star found by ground-based telescope
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, a binary star with two extreme components has been discovered
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Double supermassive black holes found to be rare in galaxies
Pairs of supermassive black holes orbiting each other at the cores of galaxies could be more unusual than previously thought
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Could wormholes really exist?
We asked two experts this mind-bending question
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“Planck could still wield the key to understanding more about our infant cosmos”
We’re reminded of the defunct satellite that could tell us even more about the early Universe
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5 amazing facts: double black holes
If you thought one was enough, scientists believe that some black holes pair up. Find out 5 facts about double black holes here.