Figure 1: The 30 Doradus nebula, also known as the Tarantula Nebula, in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is home to many massive stars. Credit:…
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Microlensing of gravitational waves. Credit: Roshni Samuel / Parameswaran Ajith / ICTS One of the biggest puzzles in modern cosmology is the existence of dark…
Artist’s impression of a disc of material circling a supermassive black hole. Credit: ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser Simulation Shows How Star Collisions Fuel Massive Black Holes…
Orbiting 500 km above the earth, the Fermi Large Area Telescope collects gamma rays from millisecond pulsars. As these high-energy photons travel across the Milky…
The finding hints at exotic black hole behaviors. In the last seven years, scientists at the LIGOThe Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is a large-scale…
Animation illustrating gravitational waves. Gravitational-waves are ripples in space-time created by distant astronomical objects and detected by large complex detectors (like LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA).…
A new method of identifying gravitational wave signals using quantum computingPerforming computation using quantum-mechanical phenomena such as superposition and entanglement.” data-gt-translate-attributes=”[{“attribute”:”data-cmtooltip”, “format”:”html”}]”>quantum computing could provide…
This illustration shows the merger of two black holes and the gravitational waves that ripple outward as the black holes spiral toward each other. Credit:…
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Northwestern Univ./A. Hajela et al.; Illustration: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the…
Researchers from the UAB, IFAE, and University College London propose using the variations in distance between the Earth and the Moon, which can be measured…
Schematic of a laser interferometer used to observe gravitational waves. If the quantum uncertainty of the radiation pressure of the light is the dominant dynamic…
Artist’s concept of a pulsar. Pulsars, a class of neutron stars, are extremely predictable stars. They are formed from the hearts of massive stars that…
Illustration of a swarm of smaller black holes in a gas disk rotating around a giant black hole. Credit: J. Samsing/Niels Bohr Institute Researchers provide…
An artist’s impression of gravitational waves generated by binary neutron stars. Credit: R. Hurt/Caltech-JPL A new technology that can improve gravitational-wave detectors, one of the…
A supermassive black holeA black hole is a place in space where the pull of gravity is so strong not even light can escape it.…
This artist’s concept shows two candidate supermassive black holes at the heart of a quasar called PKS 2131-021. In this view of the system, gravity…
Animation of a spinning neutron star in space. Neutron stars are directly observable, usually as “pulsars” – the lighthouses of the cosmos. Credit: NASA’s Goddard…
New research has shown that future gravitational wave detections from space will be capable of finding new fundamental fields and potentially shed new light on…
Illustration of two orbiting black holes warping spacetime and generating gravitational waves. Published in Nature Astronomy the work which shows the unprecedented accuracyHow close the…
Gravitational waves illustration. Incredibly sensitive instruments used in landmark discoveries could help solve one of the biggest remaining mysteries in the Universe. The technology behind…