02 September 2020
Heaviest black hole merger yet is a first for discoveries
...at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) and its discovery is also raising questions ...National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), comparing the signal to LIGO’s first detection of gravitational waves in 2015. “This is more...
12 December 2016
Gravitational waves proved Einstein right, now they may help prove him wrong too
... wave data, that thanks to the recent discoveries by the LIGO team has now been made accessible. The team, whose lead...of this being the case, however with further detections by LIGO and other interferometers that are due for upgrade or construction,...
21 July 2017
A new way to search for gravitational waves?
... a wave predicted by Einstein over 100 years ago. The ground-based Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) was responsible for the detection of GW150914, and subsequent GW events, which marked not only the first...
25 November 2016
New search shows no link between gravitational waves and gamma-ray bursts
...part of his General Theory of Relativity was detected by astronomers using the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory or LIGO for short. These distortions in spacetime are caused by some of the most violent and energetic processes in the...
02 January 2018
2017 - What a year!
... in the Kepler 90 system, making it the only other known system to contain eight planets like our own. LIGO’s continued discoveries included the first detection of a neutron star merger and scientists surmise that our Universe...
12 February 2016
A scientific breakthrough as gravitational waves detected for the first time
... considered to be true. The detection made by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration was made on September 14, 2015 from two... of the University of Birmingham, and one of the researchers at Ligo. “We have observed the universe through light so far. But we...
