02 September 2020
Heaviest black hole merger yet is a first for discoveries
...been detected by researchers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) and its discovery is also ...CNRS), comparing the signal to LIGO’s first detection of gravitational waves in 2015. “This is more like something that goes ‘...
13 February 2019
Magnetopause makes Earth one enormous drum
...a drum head when so-called magnetosonic waves pulsed along it. The waves act essentially like sound waves and move through a medium in ... of Earth’s protective bubble, as while the wave itself remains on the magnetopause’s surface, the vibrations...
24 July 2020
A first of its kind white dwarf merger with a dense compact object discovered by students
... and had everyone connected to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) – the facility that recorded the event... another new development in the world of gravitational wave discoveries, when a pair were caught colliding 130...
26 July 2016
Will PIPER be successful in confirming Inflation Theory?
...search the skies for the signature of primordial gravity waves, but this time, by those produced in the... southern hemispheres. If PIPER is successful in detecting gravitational waves through their unique signature in the polarisation of the afterglow...
21 June 2017
LISA gets green light from ESA
... 2034. LISA will be on the hunt for low-frequency gravitational waves (around 10-4 Hz to 10-1 Hz) which on Earth are blotted... will focus around the gravitational Universe, in particular waves created by celestial objects with very strong gravity, such...
01 August 2016
SETI has new eyes on the skies
...frequency range for the same purposes. Looking for radio waves produced by an advanced civilisation is not an easy task... the Universe is full of objects that emit their own radio waves over many different frequencies. It is therefore the task of teams...
