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…
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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…
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…
Two University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers have identified and corrected a subtle error that was made when applying Einstein’s equations to model the growth…
A black widow pulsar and its small stellar companion, viewed within their orbital plane. Powerful radiation and the pulsar’s “wind” – an outflow of high-energy…
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.…