Numerical simulation of two black holes that inspiral and merge, emitting gravitational waves. The black holes have large and nearly equal masses, with one only…
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Numerical simulation of two black holes that inspiral and merge, emitting gravitational waves. The black holes have large and nearly equal masses, with one only…
Artist’s depiction of a black hole about to swallow a neutron star. Credit: Carl Knox, OzGrav ARC Centre of Excellence A new study makes a…
Artist’s impression of the exotic binary star system AR Scorpii. Credit: M. Garlick/University of Warwick/ESO Gravitational waves are ripples in space-time that come in many…
An MIT-designed miniature “squeezer” reduces quantum noise in lasers at room temperature. The marble-sized system could enable better laser precision for quantum computing and gravitational-wave…
Artist’s rendition of a binary-star merger, which are believed to create gravitational waves that cause ripples in space-time. Credit: NASA Tiny diamond crystals could be…
Vibration sensor. Credit: Joris van Heijningen A cutting-edge vibration sensor may improve the next generation of gravitational-wave detectors to find the tiniest cosmic waves from…
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…
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…