Inverse

Scientists Just Heard the Hum of Giant Black Holes — Here's How They'll Pinpoint the Source

Astronomers just discovered a background “hum” of low-frequency gravitational waves constantly rippling through the universe — but what’s next? When two galaxies merge, the supermassive black holes at ...

Gravitational waves may be responsible for dark matter in the universe

Dark matter is thought to exist everywhere, wrapping around galaxies and helping to shape the largest things in the universe.
EurekAlert!

‘The beacons were lit!’ A system to detect and map merging black holes

An international collaboration of astrophysicists that includes researchers from Yale has created and tested a detection system that uses gravitational waves to map out the locations of merging black ...
Salon

Supermassive black hum: Scientists discover gravitational wave background that permeates universe

On Earth, a visible ripple effect occurs when a stone is thrown into the water. In space, a similar phenomenon happens. However, instead of creating waves that can be seen by the human eye or optical ...
New Scientist

Gravitational waves produce a background hum across the whole universe

The fabric of the universe is constantly rippling, according to astronomers who have discovered a background buzz of gravitational waves. These waves may be produced by supermassive black holes ...
EurekAlert!

The hunt for the gravitational wave background

Coalescing supermassive black holes in the centers of merging galaxies fill the universe with low-frequency gravitational waves. Astronomers have been searching for these waves by using large radio ...
Ars Technica

NANOGrav hears “hum” of gravitational wave background, louder than expected

Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of spacetime predicted by Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity, first detected in 2015. But an expected corresponding low-frequency ...
CNN

Astronomers ‘hear’ the celestial choir of gravitational waves for the first time

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 ...
Science Daily

New evidence of a gravitational wave background

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 ...
PBS

Was the Gravitational Wave Background Finally Discovered?!?

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 ...
Business Insider

An experiment that reaches across the galaxy has 'heard' an invisible sea of ripples in space-time for the first time. It's surprisingly loud.

We are all bobbing in a sea of ripples in space-time, called gravitational waves, reverberating through the fabric of the universe, scientists announced on Wednesday. Those ripples are probably the ...