A new model could provide scientists with a better idea how gravitational waves, or ripples, created by colliding black holes affect the very fabric of space-time.

Like the lingering chime of a struck bell, tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime are created when massive objects like black holes spiral toward each other and merge into a single, larger black ...

As those two bowling balls -- which represent black holes in this analogy -- spin around one another, they create ripples in the sheet. Those are gravitational waves.

Echoing Ripples For the first time ever, a team of astronomers have detected the faint hum of gravitational waves echoing throughout our universe, Reuters reports, whose existence was first ...

Scientists have observed for the first time the faint ripples caused by the motion of black holes that are gently stretching and squeezing everything in the universe. They reported Wednesday that ...

Gravitational waves coming from supermassive black holes like the one at the center of the Milky Way are offering clues to these monsters’ fates. ... Space-Time Ripples Reveal. Share. Resize. Listen ...

These black holes spin around one another very slowly and produce gravitational waves with frequencies of one-billionth of a hertz. That means the spacetime ripples have an oscillation every few ...

In theory, as the newly formed black hole behemoth settles into a stable, spinning form, it should radiate a distinctive pattern of gravitational waves — known to astronomers as quasinormal ...

Like the lingering chime of a struck bell, tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime are created when massive objects like black holes spiral toward each other and merge into a single, larger black ...