In Interstellar, Miller’s planet orbits close to the black hole Gargantua, where gravity is so strong that time runs much ...

Imagine gazing at a distant star, its light traveling millions or even billions of years to reach our telescopes. As we ...

A new paper presents a method for distinguishing between different sources of nanohertz gravitational waves. Pulsars may be revealing faint ripples in the fabric of the universe, ultra–low-frequency ...

UW-Milwaukee physics and astronomy assistant professor Lia Medeiros explains gravitational waves and the role UWM played in discovering them.