Gravitational Waves

Ripples in the fabric of space-time caused by accelerating massive objects, such as merging black holes. These waves were first directly detected by LIGO in 2015.

Source: ligo.caltech.edu

APODs including "Gravitational Waves"

The Doubly Warped World of Binary Black Holes

06/05/2025

Simulation: Two Black Holes Merge

10/05/2024

A Message from the Gravitational Universe

29/06/2023

Two Black Holes Dancing in 3C 75

05/06/2022

The Observable Universe

16/03/2022

A Road to the Stars

15/03/2022

Ninety Gravitational Wave Spectrograms and Counting

07/12/2021

GW200115: Simulation of a Black Hole Merging with a Neutron Star

14/07/2021

The Doubly Warped World of Binary Black Holes

16/04/2021

Fifty Gravitational Wave Events Illustrated

04/11/2020

Unusual Signal Suggests Neutron Star Destroyed by Black Hole

03/09/2019

Simulation: Two Black Holes Merge

14/04/2019