The newly detected gravitational wave background could be the result of supermassive black hole binaries that orbit each other for a few million years before merging. By now you’ll have seen the news ...

Gravitational waves, ripples in space-time predicted by Einstein almost a century ago, were detected for the first time in 2015. A new study led by Yanou Cui, an associate professor of physics and ...

Researchers just announced the discovery of the gravitational wave background. After a 15-year-long study, the scientists have finally “heard” what they were looking for: the gravitational waves that ...

There's a galaxy-spanning gravitational wave detector that has provided a breakthrough. It was pretty impressive when LIGO detected gravitational waves from colliding black holes. Well, we’ve just ...

The results of a comprehensive search for a background of ultra-low frequency gravitational waves has been announced by an international team of astronomers. The results of a comprehensive search for ...

Researchers have found the first direct evidence of a “background” of gravitational waves in the universe — a sign that gravitational waves from slowly merging pairs of supermassive black holes, or ...

Gravitationally speaking, the universe is a noisy place. A hodgepodge of gravitational waves from unknown sources streams unpredictably around space, including possibly from the early universe.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Astronomers have been able to “hear” the ...

As an international collaboration of radio astronomers from Australia, Germany, the UK, South Africa, the Netherlands, Italy and France, the MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array (MPTA) has created a ...

The gravitational wave background has probably been detected using a pulsar timing array. A few weeks ago a large team of gravitational wave astronomers announced something pretty wild - pervasive ...