Stories by Lieke van Son

Lieke van Son is a research fellow at the Center for Computational Astrophysics of the Flatiron Institute and at Princeton University. She is set to join Radboud University in the Netherlands as an assistant professor of astronomy in August 2025.

Illustration of two black holes orbiting each other. Eventually the black holes will merge, an event that will produce gravitational waves.

OpinionJuly 24, 2025

We Just Discovered the Sounds of Spacetime. Let’s Keep Listening

Less than a decade since the first detection of gravitational waves—ripples in spacetime itself—proposed budget cuts threaten to silence this groundbreaking science

Lieke van Son