Researchers suggest a novel process to explain the collision of a large black hole and a much smaller one.

A binary black hole merger likely produced gravitational waves equal to the energy of eight suns.

Despite the planet’s seeming standstill, graduate students continue to use LIGO to identify astrophysical events.

“Light squeezer” reduces quantum noise in lasers, could enhance quantum computing and gravitational-wave detection.

Study shows LIGO’s 40-kilogram mirrors can move in response to tiny quantum effects, revealing the “spooky popcorn of the universe.”

Danielle Frostig, a physics graduate student, is developing an instrument to study how the heaviest elements in the universe are produced.

Technology “squeezes” out quantum noise so more gravitational wave signals can be detected.

Results support Einstein’s theory and the idea that black holes have no “hair.”

“We will keep listening for these faint and remote cosmic whispers,” says the physics professor.

Findings reported just weeks into the network’s latest operating run. (Press release)