02 June 2017
A third success for LIGO as more gravitational waves detected
...direction misaligned with the overall orbital motion – a spin configuration favoured by some astrophysical formation scenarios of binary black holes,” Buonanno added. The longer distance that the gravitational waves have had to travel for this latest...
04 June 2018
More surprises for neutron star merger GW170817
...Astronomers have long suspected that neutron star mergers would form a black hole and produce bursts of radiation, but we lacked a strong... career, astronomers could only observe neutron stars and black holes in our own galaxy, and now we are observing...
24 July 2020
A first of its kind white dwarf merger with a dense compact object discovered by students
... up with only one plausible scenario to explain it all; the merger of a white dwarf with either a neutron star or a black hole. “The explosion is likely to be the result of a merger between a white dwarf (the core of a star after it has evolved...
15 March 2018
A shining light in physics is lost
... breaks down and density and gravity become infinite – a point that is theorised to exist deep within a black hole. Hawking also proposed that black holes should emit heat and eventually pop out of existence - a process that for miniature...
29 September 2017
Virgo and LIGO detect fourth gravitational wave signal
... report that a fourth confirmed detection of a binary black hole merger has been recorded. It is the first time...ever detection of gravitational waves resulting from the collision of two black holes in a galaxy a billion light-years away," says France...
13 November 2017
Powerful outburst points to new class of high-energy transients
... houses at the centres of galaxies and they are thought to result from the accretion of matter by a residing supermassive black hole. The international team of astronomers who discovered PS1-10adi have thus looked at whether AGN activity is behind...
