A new idea could explain the merger of two black holes that led to the historic first direct detection of gravitational waves. (space.com)
Researchers with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced today (Feb. 11) that they had made history's first direct detection of gravitational waves, enigmatic ripples in space - time whose existence was first predicted 100 years ago by Albert Einstein's famous theory of general relativity. (space.com)
In March, cosmologists announced with much fanfare the first direct detection that our universe, in its earliest moments, underwent an unimaginably rapid expansion known as inflation (SN: 4/5/14, p. 6). (sciencenews.org)