A new type of gravitational wave detector to find tennis ball-sized black holes straight out of the Big Bang. “Detecting primordial black holes opens up…
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Artist’s impression of continuous gravitational waves generated by a spinning asymmetric neutron star. Credit: Mark Myers, Ozgrav-Swinburne University Scientists refine the search for enigmatic continuous…
Artist’s impression of continuous gravitational waves generated by a spinning asymmetric neutron star. Credit: Mark Myers, Ozgrav-Swinburne University Five years on from the first discovery…
Artist’s illustration of a double neutron star merger. Credit: NSF/LIGO/Sonoma State/A. Simonnet Scientists from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) have…
Rapidly rotating neutron stars may be “humming” continuous gravitational waves. Credit: K. Wette Remember the days before working from home? It’s Monday morning, you’re running…
Artist’s illustration of a pair of merging neutron stars. Credit: Carl Knox, OzGrav-Swinburne University A team of international scientists, led by the Galician Institute of…
Color map of the curvature on the large black hole horizon generated by the near merging small black hole. Credit: Nicole Rosato Rochester Institute of…
An artist’s impression of two black holes about to collide and merge. The merger of two black holes in a binary system emits energy that…
Image of archaea. Credit: Steve Gschmeissner/Science Photo Library A group of international scientists, including an Australian astrophysicist, has used know-how from gravitational-wave astronomy (used to…
Scientists have used a “galaxy-sized” space observatory to find possible hints of a unique signal from gravitational waves, or the powerful ripples that course through…
University of Chicago scientist lays out how LIGO gravitational waves could be scrambled, yielding information. There’s something a little off about our theory of the…
Primordial gravitational waves, produced nearly 13.8 billion years ago in the moments following the Big Bang, still echo through the universe today. Credit: MIT News…
The merger of black holes could release energy in the form of ELFs (bottom left of the image). It might be possible to detect their…
The massive O4.5 V + O5.5 V binary VFTS 352 in the Tarantula Nebula (location indicated by the red cross) is one of the shortest-period…
This illustration generated by a computer model shows multiple black holes found within the heart of a dense globular star cluster. Credit: Aaron M. Geller,…
Artist’s impression of two black holes about to collide. Credit: Mark Myers, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) Over the past five…
Artist’s rendition of a binary neutron star merger. Credit: National Science Foundation/LIGO/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet Rapidly rotating, asymmetric neutron stars that undergo free precession can…
Artist’s impression of the explosion and burst of gravitational waves emitted when a pair of superdense neutron stars collide. New observations with radio telescopes show…
Artist’s impression of binary black holes about to collide. Credit: Mark Myers, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) The most massive black…
A lopsided merger of two black holes may have unusual origins, based on a reanalysis of LIGO data. Credit: MIT News Researchers suggest a novel…