Artist’s impression of black hole collision. Credit: Alex Andrix. NB: The streams and lensing around the compact objects are an artistic impression. A black hole…
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Artist’s depiction of a black hole about to swallow a neutron star. Credit: Carl Knox, OzGrav ARC Centre of Excellence For decades astronomers have been…
Gravitational wave detectors are extremely complex instruments of precision measurement. They use interference as the physical mechanism to measure passing gravitational waves (GWs)—ripples in space-time—from…
Visualization of the coalescence of two black holes that inspiral and merge, emitting gravitational waves. One black hole is 9.2 times more massive than the…
Neutron star nebula. Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO: X-ray; NASA/JPL-Caltech: Infrared Most massive stars are born in binaries (and sometimes triples, quadruples, and so on—being single isn’t common…
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Caltech/P.Ogle et al; Optical: NASA/STScI; IR: NASA/JPL-Caltech; Radio: NSF/NRAO/VLA Earlier this year, an international team of scientists announced the second detection of a…
Artist’s impression of a supernova. In a study recently published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, researchers Dr. Jade Powell and Dr.…
Thermal-driven mirror for gravitational wave detectors: The illustration shows the cross-section of a thermal bimorph mirror and its constituents. Controlling the temperature of the mirror…
An artist’s impression of two black holes about to collide and merge. Gravitational-wave astronomy provides a unique new way to study the expansion history of…
Montage of the computer simulation of two merging neutron stars that blends over with an image from heavy-ion collisions to highlight the connection of astrophysics…
Artist’s impression of the binary neutron star merger producing GW190425. Credit: National Science Foundation/LIGO/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet A new collaborative study with the ARC Centre…
A neutron star is the densest object astronomers can observe directly, crushing half a million times Earth’s mass into a sphere about 22 kilometers across,…
A new study by a group of researchers at the University of Birmingham has found that collisions of supermassive black holes may be simultaneously observable…
Gravitational Waves Surge Through the Fabric of Space and Time After Neutron Stars Violently Collide
Gravitational Waves Surge Through the Fabric of Space and Time After Neutron Stars Violently Collide
Artist’s rendition of a binary neutron star merger. Credit: National Science Foundation/LIGO/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet On April 25, 2019, the LIGO Livingston Observatory picked up…
Researchers install a new quantum squeezing device into one of LIGO’s gravitational wave detectors. Credit: Lisa Barsotti New instrument extends LIGO’s reach: Technology “squeezes” out…
LISA Pathfinder, led by the European Space Agency (ESA), is designed to test technologies that could one day detect gravitational waves. Gravitational waves, predicted by…
Artist’s depiction of a black hole about to swallow a neutron star. Credit: Carl Knox, OzGrav ARC Centre of Excellence Squeeze leads to stellar-mass black…
This is a simulation of an accretion disk surrounding a supermassive black hole. Credit: Scott C. Noble Scientists have reported detecting gravitational waves from 10…
Gravitational waves, first detected in 2016, offer a new window on the universe, with the potential to tell us about everything from the time following…
Space is moving: This numerical-relativistic simulation reflects the first observed fusion of two black holes measured by the Advanced LIGO detectors on September 14, 2015.…