Sligo County Council has awarded certificates to staff members who successfully completed a Gaelchultúr Irish language course. The event highlighted the organisation’s commitment to promoting the ...

In a new study, physicists propose that superconducting magnets from dark matter experiments that are originally designed to ...

LIGO detected the first-ever confirmed gravitational waves in 2016. Around the same time, its operators were thinking about ways to weed out the quantum disturbances.

While the interferometer would follow the same basic principles as the ground-based LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) experiment that first detected gravitational waves ...

Cities, the Vera C. Rubin and LIGO observatories reveal cosmic secrets, one capturing light and the other listening for the ...

For decades, scientists have believed there should be black holes that fall between two well-known types. On one end are ...

LIGO researchers are particularly excited for the new upgrade, however, because this pushes the instrument beyond what is called the "quantum limit" — a first for a gravitational wave detector.

Trump administration proposes closing LIGO Hanford or LIGO Livingston, jeopardizing cutting-edge gravitational wave research near Tri-Cities, Washington.

LIGO can only see the most powerful of these—caused by very massive objects undergoing extreme acceleration—and those only within a certain frequency range. Still, it’s worth asking what ...

The LIGO detectors in the states were meant to be joined by a third, the Virgo detector, which is located near Pisa, Italy. However, that detector wasn’t ready to go operational, ...

The twin LIGO gravitational-wave detectors at Hanford, Wash., and Livingston, La., will be joined for O4 by the Virgo detector in Italy as well as the KAGRA observatory in Japan.