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…
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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…
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 a radio magnetar. Credit: CSIRO On March 12th, 2020, a space telescope called Swift, detected a burst of radiation from half-way across…
Exploded star blooms like a cosmic flower. Credit: NASA/CXC/U.Texas A recent study on ‘pre-supernova’ neutrinos—tiny cosmic particles that are extremely hard to detect—has brought scientists…
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…
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…
Artistic impression of the background hum of gravitational waves permeating the Universe. Credit: Carl Knox, OzGrav/Swinburne University of Technology Every year, 2 million black hole…
Artist’s impression of a supernova. Credit: James Josephides, Swinburne University of Technology A team of scientists, including Chief Investigator Ilya Mandel from the ARC Centre…
Artist’s impression of two black holes colliding Credit: Mark Myers, OzGrav A new study led by postdoctoral researcher Xingjiang Zhu from the ARC Centre of…
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…
Multi-wavelength image of the Crab nebula, which hosts a glitching pulsar at its heart. Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Hester and A. Loll (Arizona State University)…
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Scientists from the ARC Centre of Excellence in Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) reveal the eccentricity of binary black holes: the shape of the…