In a new study, physicists propose that superconducting magnets from dark matter experiments that are originally designed to ...

New research published in Physical Review Letters suggests that superconducting magnets used in dark matter detection ...

LIGO detected the first-ever confirmed gravitational waves in 2016. Around the same time, its operators were thinking about ways to weed out the quantum disturbances.

As LIGO's sensitivity becomes better and better, and as more detectors come online, our capabilities allow us to detect more of these waves, and the cataclysmic events that generate them, ...

LIGO first became world-famous in Sept. 2015, when it detected gravitational waves from merging black holes for the first time. These ripples had traveled for around 1.4 billion years, squashing ...

LIGO can only see the most powerful of these—caused by very massive objects undergoing extreme acceleration—and those only within a certain frequency range. Still, it’s worth asking what ...

LIGO is based on mirrors separated by kilometers reflecting laser beams back and forth multiple times. And those laser beams are composed of photons that obey the rules of quantum mechanics.

LIGO changed that. Last year, the collaboration announced that its twin detectors had picked up a passing distortion in late 2015 caused by two black holes crashing into each other.