Artist’s impression of a collection of black holes in the core of a star cluster. Credit: ESA/Hubble, N. Bartmann Since 2015, the LIGOThe Laser Interferometer…
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Illustration of a tidal disruption event (TDE). Credit: Carl Knox – OzGrav, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery, Swinburne University of Technology Astronomers…
OzGrav, the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery at Swinburne, has received an additional $35 million in funding to continue their…
Artist’s illustration of a pulsar. Credit: Carl Knox, OzGrav-Swinburne University Occasionally pulsars—rapidly-spinning remnants of stars that flash like a lighthouse—show extreme variations in brightness. Astrophysicists…
Artist’s impression of one potential source of continuous gravitational waves – Asymmetric accretion onto a spinning neutron star. Credit: Mark Myers, Ozgrav-Swinburne University In the…
An artist’s impression of gravitational waves generated by binary neutron stars. Credit: R. Hurt/Caltech-JPL Deep Follow-up of GW151226 — an ordinary binary or a low-mass…
An artist’s impression of two black holes about to collide and merge. Gravitational waves are ripples in the curvature of spacetime caused by accelerated masses…
Artist’s concept of gravitational waves propagating through space. New laser breakthrough to help increase understanding of gravitational wavesGravitational waves are distortions or ripples in the…
Figure 1: The 30 Doradus nebula, also known as the Tarantula Nebula, in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is home to many massive stars. Credit:…
At the heart of most, if not all, giant galaxies lies a supermassive black hole. As matter rotates around and falls into the black hole,…
Artist’s illustration of a neutron star binary. Credit: Carl Knox, OzGrav-Swinburne University The High Time Resolution Universe Pulsar Survey Double neutron starA neutron star is…
Animation illustrating gravitational waves. Gravitational-waves are ripples in space-time created by distant astronomical objects and detected by large complex detectors (like LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA).…
Artist’s concept of a pulsar. Pulsars, a class of neutron stars, are extremely predictable stars. They are formed from the hearts of massive stars that…
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…
Artist’s impression of CygnusX-1. Credit: Mark Myers, OzGrav-Swinburne University The first evidence of the existence of black holes was found in the 1960s, when strong…
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…
Many of the heaviest stars in the Universe will end their lives in a bright explosion, known as a supernova, which briefly outshines the rest…
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…
Artist’s impression of binary black holes about to collide. Credit: Mark Myers, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) With the growing catalog…
Artist’s impression of a gamma-ray burst. Credit: Carl Knox, OzGrav-Swinburne Our Universe shines bright with light across the electromagnetic spectrum. While most of this light…