23 February 2016
Researchers probe black-hole mergers with fast-powered winds
...beginning of a new era in gravitational wave astronomy. "LIGO has just proved that binary black holes merge frequently ... of sensitivity now being planned for the U.S.-based LIGO detectors and the Italian counterpart, Advanced Virgo, researchers...
02 December 2019
"Impossible" black hole found in our Galaxy
...examine our models of how stellar-mass black holes form," said LIGO Director Prof. David Reitze from the University of Florida in ...the U.S. "This remarkable result along with the LIGO-Virgo detections of binary black hole collisions during the past...
19 April 2016
Gravitational waves poised to be pinpointed by gamma ray burst
... in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. "There is an incredible synergy between ...event." He will be discussing the burst and how Fermi and LIGO are working together in an invited talk at the American Physical Society...
26 May 2016
Are primordial black holes the source of dark matter?
.... "Depending on the mechanism at work, primordial black holes could have properties very similar to what LIGO detected," Kashlinsky explained. "Future LIGO observing runs will tell us much more about the universe's population of black holes, and...
24 July 2020
A first of its kind white dwarf merger with a dense compact object discovered by students
... everyone connected to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) – the facility that recorded the event – on ... suggest that binary black hole mergers are being discovered by LIGO and its sister facility, Virgo, at a rate of one...
February 2017
Global robotic network for monitoring near-Earth and outer space
.... The fact that the world’s largest physical experiments on neutrino registration (ANTARES, IceCube) and gravitational waves (LIGO/VIRGO) work with MASTER speaks of its quality. MASTER II’s decade-long working experience has shown that...
