12 December 2016
Gravitational waves proved Einstein right, now they may help prove him wrong too
... correspondingly act like a mirror, at least for some long wavelength perturbations, that would trap some of the gravitational waves as they bounced around the surface before they shot off into space. According to the team's calculations...
16 October 2017
First detected neutron star merger reveals more than gravitational waves
... after he announced in 1929, that galaxies, from all directions, appeared to be moving away from us. GW170817 is the first gravitational-wave event with a known host galaxy (called NGC 4993) and as such, the distance to the galaxy can...
25 November 2016
New search shows no link between gravitational waves and gamma-ray bursts
... distortions in spacetime are caused by some of the most violent and energetic processes in the Universe and it was gravitational waves produced by two colliding black holes nearly 1.3 billion light years away that were detected by members of the...
08 November 2021
Latest gravitational wave catalogue details 35 new detections
... of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2017, “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves." Since then, both LIGO and the Advanced Virgo detector in Italy, have been busy racking up detection...
21 March 2016
Using gravitational waves to search for Population III stars
...outstanding. The idea of Pop III compact binaries as gravitational-wave sources is not a new one and previous simulations ...these objects might be detected. However, now that gravitational waves have been conclusively identified, the existence of Pop...
04 June 2018
More surprises for neutron star merger GW170817
... first time: the birth of the lowest mass black hole ever found. GW170817 was a different type of gravitational wave event than the first few ground-breaking ones before it, because this time the ripples permeating...
