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LIGO
Last week, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) teased news of an “ unprecedented discovery. ” Now, the organization has revealed that, for the first time ever, astronomers have observed both gra…
Following the latest research about the space-warping bang of colliding neutron stars, merging of black holes may sound obsolete now. To determine how fast gravity swings, two teams of physicists wo…
Using the LIGO and VIRGO space observatories, experts are researching an event in a galaxy located 130 light years away from Earth, which according to experts, could be evidence of a completely new p…
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute/AEI) in Potsdam found that hidden dimensions – as predicted by string theory – could influence gravitati…
In early 2016, a group of scientists from the LIGO observatory made an incredible announcement: They had detected gravitational waves —ripples in the fabric of spacetime—from the collision of two sup…
A photo of our galactic neighbor Andromeda has revealed a surprise subject - an X-ray source initially thought to be inside Andromeda, but which turned out to be 1,000 times farther away. Using dat…
For the third time in a year and a half, the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory has detected gravitational waves . Hypothesized by Einstein a century ago, the identification…
"The gravitational waves from these supermassive black hole binary mergers are the most powerful in the universe," says Chiara Mingarelli, a research fellow at the Center for Computational …
In the world of astrophysics, Aug. 17, 2017, was a red-letter day. “This is a game-changer for astrophysics,” said UC Santa Barbara faculty member Andy Howell, who leads the supernova group at the La…
“Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true,” said the great Danish physicist Niels Bohr. Enter Sir Roger Penrose. Correlated noise in the two LIGO gravitational-wave detectors ma…
The fifth observation of gravitational waves (GW) marks the beginning of a new era in astronomy. On August 17, 2017, the LIGO and VIRGO collaborations detected neutron stars merging for the first t…
The Royal Swedish Academy of Science has given the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics to Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish, and Kip Thorne for their work with the LIGO/VIRGO collaboration and the 2015 discovery of…
A long, long time ago, a pair of black holes collided with such power that they created ripples in spacetime, which emanated through the universe. All the while, molecules on a tiny rock in a fairly …
