05 October 2016
Neutron star natal kicks could be the catalyst for binary formation and new gravitational wave sources
...turn into rapidly rotating stars that emit regular pulses of radio waves (and other types of electromagnetic radiation) at rates of ... could possibly give rise to a new type of gravitational wave (GW) source that is detectable with eLISA. eLISA will be...
24 March 2017
Gravitational waves expel black hole from galaxy centre
... be excluded, the main culprit that researchers believe has the strength to accomplish such a feat are gravitational waves. "We estimate that it took the equivalent energy of 100 million supernovae exploding simultaneously to jettison the black hole...
21 July 2017
A new way to search for gravitational waves?
...which marked not only the first ever detection of a gravitational wave (GW) but also the first observation of a binary black ...that can be done in the mean time to search for gravitational waves? One team based in the UK thinks so. Located at Cambridge...
12 December 2016
Gravitational waves proved Einstein right, now they may help prove him wrong too
... is in the form of ‘echoes’ hidden in gravitational wave data, that thanks to the recent discoveries by the LIGO...date, three black hole merger events that have produced gravitational waves have been captured by LIGO and this information appears in ...
16 October 2017
First detected neutron star merger reveals more than gravitational waves
...Advanced Virgo Interferometer have once again detected gravitational waves, but this time, not from merging black ... appeared to be moving away from us. GW170817 is the first gravitational-wave event with a known host galaxy (called NGC 4993) and as ...
08 November 2021
Latest gravitational wave catalogue details 35 new detections
... to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves." Since then, both LIGO and the Advanced Virgo ... the lowest-mass neutron stars ever detected. The final gravitational wave event is still something of a mystery, say the collaboration...