28 July 2021
Japan successfully tests rocket engine propelled by shock waves
... experiment is the world’s first flight demonstration of rocket engine technology that safely and efficiently converts shock waves (explosive waves) generated when a mixed gas of fuel and oxygen reacts explosively into thrust,” JAXA said, according...
15 June 2017
Black hole 'bath' confirms wave phenomena
... using a specially designed 3D air fluid interface sensor. In accordance with theory, the team observed that plane waves propagating on the surface of water were being amplified as much as 20 percent after being scattered by a draining vortex that...
21 March 2016
Using gravitational waves to search for Population III stars
... than Pop I black holes and that any resulting gravitational waves are easier to detect. After analysis of their models, ... objects might be detected. However, now that gravitational waves have been conclusively identified, the existence of Pop III...
22 March 2016
Astronomers catch a supernova shock wave in visible light for the first time
...than just theory to explain what happens when a supernova shock wave reaches the surface of a star as that star is totally...due to the smaller star being surrounded by gas, masking the shock wave when it reached the star's surface. "That is the puzzle ...
04 June 2018
More surprises for neutron star merger GW170817
... 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...
07 June 2016
A green light for the LISA Pathfinder mission
... for Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, is a fundamental technology mission aimed at testing the concept of low frequency gravitational wave detection, and it works by acting as a container to house two very dense gold-platinum cubes, that are put...
