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The researchers in a recent breakthrough have developed revolutionary and full-scale prototype instrumentation FROSTI, also ...

A new study by researchers at the University of Amsterdam shows how gravitational waves from black holes can be used to ...

Albert Einstein was famous for solving the universe’s biggest mysteries - but even he once admitted that a certain magic ...

FROSTI is a new adaptive optics system that precisely corrects distortions in LIGO’s mirrors caused by extreme laser power.

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The universe occasionally produces a huge surprise that proves physicists wrong, says Kip Thorne, who grew up in Logan, Utah, ...

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The speed of light has been one of science’s most trusted markers of stability. For more than a century, the idea that light ...

Before Einstein, before Bohr, there was a Jesuit priest with a telescope and a startlingly modern vision of the universe.