Artist’s illustration of a black hole and neutron star orbiting each other and about to merge. Credit: Carl Knox, OzGrav-Swinburne University Multimessenger astronomy is an…
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Gravitational waves are cosmic ripples in the fabric of space and time that emanate from catastrophic events in space, like collisions of black holes and…
The hunt for gravitational wavesGravitational waves are distortions or ripples in the fabric of space and time. They were first detected in 2015 by the…
This artist’s concept shows a supermassive black hole surrounded by a disk of gas. Embedded in this disk are two smaller black holes that may…
Two black holes merge to become one. Credit: NASA Key points: An international team of scientists, including Australian researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence…
The entire measurement procedure takes a few hours to complete, and it is completely automated and controlled either remotely or from the laboratory workstation. The…
[unable to retrieve full-text content] The confirmation of gravitational waves back in 2017 continues to unlock whole new worlds of physics but also continues to…
An artist’s impression of the colliding bubbles that can produce extremely low frequency gravitational waves during a cosmological phase transition in the early Universe. Credit:…
Schematic representation of binary neutron star merger outcomes. Panels A and B: Two neutron stars merge as the emission of gravitational waves drives them towards…
An artist’s impression of gravitational waves generated by binary neutron stars. Credit: R. Hurt/Caltech-JPL Binary neutron stars have been detected in the Milky WayThe Milky…
In the late stages of binary neutron star formation, the giant star expands and engulfs the neutron star companion in a stage referred to as…
Two neutron stars colliding. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab In the 2030’s, gravitational-wave detectors will be thousands of times more sensitive than Advanced…
Artist’s conception of the explosion resulting from the collision of two neutron stars. Credit: D. Berry, O. Gottlieb, K. Mooley, G. Hallinan, NRAO/AUI/NSF The National…
Image from a MAYA collaboration numerical relativity simulation of an NSBH binary merger, showing the disruption of the Neutron Star. Credit: Deborah Ferguson (UT Austin),…
Conceptual design of Gravitational-wave Lunar Observatory for Cosmology on the surface of the moon. Credit: Karan Jani Vanderbilt astrophysicist Karan Jani has led a series…
Two gravitational wave signals from an entirely new class of cosmic collisions have been discovered by researchers working on the Advanced LIGOThe Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave…
Image from a MAYA collaboration numerical relativity simulation of an NSBH binary merger, showing the disruption of the Neutron Star. Credit: Deborah Ferguson (UT Austin),…
Artist’s view of a black hole-neutron star merger. Credit: © Carl Knox, OzGrav – Swinburne University Gravitational wave detectors have observed a new type of…
An artist’s impression of two black holes about to collide and merge. Study offers evidence, based on gravitational waves, to show that the total area…
An artistic image inspired by a black hole-neutron star merger event. Credit: Carl Knox, OzGrav/Swinburne Mix pair is “elusive missing piece of the family picture…