We previously covered one such “gravity telescope” with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). Another one is the Japanese project Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector (KAGRA).

Exoplanets aren't the only objects floating around other stars—they likely have comets and asteroids as well. Even some of ...

Abstract: The Mach-Zehnder and Sagnac hybrid fiber optic interferometer (MZSI) is widely applied in numerous fields and capable of retrieving phase signals with the application of the appropriate ...

LIGO observatory near Richland confirmed Einstein’s theory of relativity, it also has proven one of Hawking’s theorems.

In a recent piece for my column The Universe, I wrote about the biggest black holes in the cosmos. Black holes are rather ...

Gauging the mass of a black hole is tricky, but astronomers have devised multiple methods to measure the heft of these galactic gluttons ...