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…
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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…
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 impression of a gamma-ray burst. Credit: Carl Knox, OzGrav-Swinburne Short gamma-ray bursts are extremely bright bursts of high-energy light that last for a couple…
Artist’s illustration. Credit: James Josephides, Swinburne University of Technology ‘Type Ia’ supernovae involve an exploding white dwarfA white dwarf star is the remnant of star…
An artist’s impression of the ESA-JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab BepiColombo is a joint mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan…
Shells of material surround the stars of Eta Carinae. A Gamma-ray burst coming from those stars should release large amounts of light as it collides…
Artist’s impression of a supernova. Credit: James Josephides, Swinburne University of Technology What happens if a supernova explosion goes off right beside another star? The…
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…
Artist’s impression of binary black holes about to collide. Credit: Mark Myers, OzGrav-Swinburne University General relativity, Einstein’s theory of gravity, is best tested at its…
Artist’s impression of a thin gas cloud formed by tidal disruption from a passing star. Scientists think this is one of the possible ways the…
Artist’s impression of the active magnetar Swift J1818.0-1607. Credit: Carl Knox, OzGrav Astronomers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) and…
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…
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…
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…
Illustrated here is the range of Advanced LIGO and its capability of detecting merging black holes. Credit: LIGO Collaboration / Amber Stuver / Richard Powell…