A team of international scientists, including researchers from The Australian National University (ANU), have unveiled the largest number of gravitational … More
Tag: LIGO
‘Spooky’ Quantum Movement Of Physical Objects Observed On Human Scale
Scientists have seen “spooky” quantum behaviour happening to objects at the human scale, according to a new paper. Researchers have … More
Astronomers Spot Mystery Object In Space: Mass Gap
When the most massive stars die, they collapse under their own gravity and leave behind black holes; when stars that … More
No Eyes On The Sky: Pandemic Causes Largest Telescopes To Close
More than 100 of Earth’s largest telescopes are now closed, and astronomers are worried about the pandemic’s long-term impacts on … More
Earth Hit By A Gravitational Wave, And Astronomers Have No Idea Why
A mysterious cosmic event might have ever-so-slightly stretched and squeezed our planet last week. On Jan. 14, astronomers detected a … More
Two New Gravitational Waves Discovered Just One Day Apart: What Is So Dense It Is Rippling Space-Time?
April and May brought a bounty of gravitational wave detections to the combined LIGO-Virgo network observatories with 13 candidate events recorded. … More
LIGO Fine-Tuned To Detect More Subtle Gravitational Waves: Ripples In The Fabric Of Space-Time
At 4:18 a.m. Eastern time on 25 April, according to preliminary observations, a gravitational wave that had been traveling through … More
Heart Of Darkness: Scientists Announce Black Hole Findings In First Picture Today
Paris (AFP) – Astronomers are poised Wednesday to unveil the first direct image of a black hole and the surrounding … More
Ripples In Space-Time Could Reveal The Shape Of Wormholes
Wormholes — yawning gateways that could theoretically connect distant points in space-time — are usually illustrated as gaping gravity wells … More
Physicists To Make Huge Announcement Concerning Gravitational Waves Today
In the space of just a few weeks, the LIGO and VIRGO collaborations have announced the fourth detection of gravitational … More