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18.08.2022
22:33 Looking inside a neutron star: New model will improve insights gleaned from gravitational waves

The oscillations in binary neutron stars before they merge could have big implications for the insights scientists can glean from gravitational wave detection.

15.08.2022
21:26 Unusual 'revived' pulsars could be the ultimate gravitational wave detector

Astronomers hope to use pulsars scattered around the galaxy as a giant gravitational wave detector. But why do we need them, and how do they work?

09.08.2022
17:30 New binary black hole mergers in the LIGO-Virgo O3a data

Author(s): Seth Olsen, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Jonathan Mushkin, Javier Roulet, Barak Zackay, and Matias ZaldarriagaThe present paper applies a refined detection pipeline to publicly available LIGO-Virgo data from the first half of the third observing run (O3a) to identify new binary black hole (BBH) mergers. The study adds ten new BBH mergers to existing catalogs and provides further evidence for the significance level of previously identified events. The new events display interesting new features that include unexplored ranges of the effective spin and mass ratio, they challenge aspects of stellar collapse models, and have implications for BBH formation channels and black hole mass gaps. [Phys. Rev. D 106, 043009] Published Tue Aug 09, 2022

28.07.2022
21:22 News at a glance: Tracking gravitational waves, a Moon rover, and the ‘best fossil hunter’

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17:23 Sneaky black hole discovery sheds light on star death, black hole formation and gravitational waves

There is always something new and exciting happening in the field of black hole research.

27.07.2022
10:03 New telescope to be the ‘GOTO’ for gravitational wave events

A new telescope, made up of two identical arrays on opposite sides of the planet, will track down

21.07.2022
22:32 Gravitational Wave Telescopes Could Detect Clumps of Dark Matter Drifting Through the Solar System

Attempts to directly detect dark matter have come up empty. A team of physicists have proposed a brand new method: if dark matter exists in clumps that occasionally pass through the solar system, we may be able to detect their slight influence with ultra-sensitive gravitational waves detectors. Astronomers have a wide variety of indirect evidence … Continue reading "Gravitational Wave Telescopes Could Detect Clumps of Dark Matter Drifting Through the Solar System" The post Gravitational Wave Telescopes Could Detect Clumps of Dark Matter Drifting Through the Solar System appeared first on Universe Today.

07.07.2022
03:27 New telescopes at Siding Spring to detect gravitational waves

A new international collaboration involving Monash University will place identical telescopes on opposite ends of the Earth to detect gravitational waves. The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO), led by the University of Warwick in the UK, will use its antipodal arrays to scour the sky in the search for the violent cosmic events which cause […]

05.07.2022
13:53 New telescope to detect gravitational wave events

A new telescope, made up of two identical arrays on opposite sides of the planet, will track down sources of gravitational waves.

13:47 LIGO resumes work in 2023 and will catch gravitational wave signals fainter than ever

Following two years of upgrades, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is almost ready for its next operating run, which is set to begin in March 2023.

27.06.2022
23:02 We Could Discover new Kinds of Particles Around Black Holes Through Gravitational Waves

A new study has shown how gravitational waves can be used to detect exotic particles orbiting black holes. The post We Could Discover new Kinds of Particles Around Black Holes Through Gravitational Waves appeared first on Universe Today.

24.06.2022
00:42 Gravitational wave radar could probe deep space for tiny stellar objects

Echoes of ripples in space could reveal far-flung neutron stars and white dwarfs

22.06.2022
14:06 Gravitational wave ‘radar’ could help map the invisible universe

Gravity ripples scattering off warped spacetime near massive objects might help astronomers peer inside stars and find globs of dark matter.

15.06.2022
13:05 Gravitational-Wave Observatory Obtains Mass of Discoveries

With its Latest Run Complete, LIGO Heralds a New Phase in the Exploration of Extreme Physics.

07.06.2022
20:20 Detecting new particles around black holes with gravitational waves

Clouds of ultralight particles can form around rotating black holes. A team of physicists now show that these clouds would leave a characteristic imprint on the gravitational waves emitted by binary black holes.

19:43 Detecting new particles around black holes with gravitational waves

Clouds of ultralight particles can form around rotating black holes. A team of physicists from the University of Amsterdam and Harvard University now show that these clouds would leave a characteristic imprint on the gravitational waves emitted by binary black holes.

18:50 Cosmological gravitational waves: A new approach to reach back to the Big Bang

Deep analysis of the data from the POLARBEAR Observatory probes the sky region with unprecedented accuracy looking for cosmological gravitational waves.

17:13 Astronomers search for X-ray signposts of elusive continuous gravitational waves

In the last few years, astronomers have achieved an incredible milestone: the detection of gravitational waves, vanishingly weak ripples in the fabric of space and time emanating from some of the most cataclysmic events in the universe, including collisions between black holes and neutron stars. So far there have been over 90 gravitational-wave detections of such events, observable for only ~0.1 to 100 seconds. However, there may be other sources of gravitational waves, and astronomers are still on the hunt for continuous gravitational waves.

17:03 Detecting new particles around black holes with gravitational waves

Clouds of ultralight particles can form around rotating black holes. A team of physicists now show that these clouds would leave a characteristic imprint on the gravitational waves emitted by binary black holes.

06.06.2022
19:53 Cosmological gravitational waves: A new approach to reach back to the Big Bang

Operating observatories around the globe target sky regions characterized by low contamination from Galactic radiation, looking for the imprint of Cosmological Gravitational Waves (CGWs) produced during Inflation, the mysterious phase of quasi-exponential expansion of space in the very early Universe. A new study by the POLARBEAR collaboration, led by SISSA for the part concerning the interpretation for Cosmology and published in the Astrophysical Journal, provides a new correction algorithm that allows researchers to almost double the amount of reliable data acquired in such observatories, thus giving access to uncharted territory of the signal produced from CGWs and bringing us closer to the Big Bang.

16:57 Western Australia ‘breakthrough’ towards gravitational wave detection

University group is using metasurface sensor to measure tell-tale laser eigenmodes.

04.06.2022
14:33 Detecting new particles around black holes with gravitational waves

Clouds of ultralight particles can form around rotating black holes. A team of physicists from the University of

31.05.2022
00:03 New laser breakthrough to help understanding of gravitational waves

Gravitational wave scientists from The University of Western Australia have led the development of a new laser mode sensor with unprecedented precision that will be used to probe the interiors of neutron stars and test fundamental limits of general relativity.

17.05.2022
17:54 Identification of kick velocity large enough for individual gravitational wave event following binary black hole merger

A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Germany and multiple institutions in the U.S. has identified a kick velocity large enough for an individual gravitational wave event after observing a binary black hole merger—a first. In their paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters, the group describes their study of the binary black hole merger GW200129_065458 (now called GW200129) and using models to estimate its recoil velocity.

13.05.2022
12:03 Gravitational Waves Might Allow Us to Detect Earthquakes at the Speed of Light

Fukushima Daiichi punched a hole in Toshiba's nuclear ambitions. A team from Côte d’Azur University developed a machine learning algorithm that can detect and interpret gravity waves produced by seismic events at the speed of light.  The post Gravitational Waves Might Allow Us to Detect Earthquakes at the Speed of Light appeared first on ExtremeTech.

06.05.2022
00:04 A Space-Based Gravitational Wave Observatory Is a Step Closer to Reality

A proposal for the first-ever space-based observatory for studying gravitational waves just passed a vital feasibility review with flying colors. The mission is called LISA—the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna—and it cleared Phase A of its mission lifetime cycle, the process by which missions are dreamt up and then… Read more...

25.04.2022
14:06 Gravitational waves gave a new black hole a high-speed ‘kick’

Ripples in spacetime revealed that two black holes united into one, which then sped off at around 5 million kilometers per hour.

21.04.2022
13:07 Overlooked gravitational wave signals point to 'exotic' black hole scenarios

In a new analysis of their gravitational wave data, scientists with the international LIGO-Virgo Collaboration have discovered 10 new examples of merging binary black holes.

19.04.2022
23:52 Dutch pledge nearly $1 billion to support underground gravitational wave detector Money would pay for nearly half of Europe’s next-generation Einstein Telescope 18.04.2022 13:16 Gamma-ray telescopes may help scientists catch more gravitational waves Telescopes that observe the universe in the most energetic form of light may help scientists detect the "fingerprints" of gravitational waves, new research reveals. 15.04.2022 21:40 Gravitational waves could let us find tiny black holes devouring stars A primordial black hole falling into a neutron star would sink to its centre and devour it in seconds, and we might be able to detect this process using gravitational waves 13.04.2022 13:33 Researchers find 10 new black hole mergers hiding in the data from LIGO and Virgo In the last seven years, scientists at the LIGO-Virgo collaboration have detected at least 90 gravitational wave signals. 12:33 Researchers find 10 new black hole mergers hiding in the data from LIGO and Virgo In the last seven years, scientists at the LIGO-Virgo collaboration have detected at least 90 gravitational wave signals. 12.04.2022 21:41 Gamma ray Telescopes Might be Able to Detect the Gravitational Waves Caused by Merging Supermassive Black Holes Gamma rays could be the new source for observing gravitational waves, according to a recent release from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy. This would make a possible third way to observe gravitational waves including laser interferometry and radio waves. In 1916 Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves, ripples in space-time moving out … Continue reading "Gamma ray Telescopes Might be Able to Detect the Gravitational Waves Caused by Merging Supermassive Black Holes" The post Gamma ray Telescopes Might be Able to Detect the Gravitational Waves Caused by Merging Supermassive Black Holes appeared first on Universe Today. 08.04.2022 19:04 Cosmic 'Lighthouses' That Beam Gamma Rays Could Reveal Gravitational Waves All Around Us A team of astronomers have compiled 12.5 years of data from the Fermi Gammy-ray Space Telescope to form a gamma-ray pulsar timing array, a system of cosmic lighthouses that could help reveal ripples in spacetime. Read more... 18:02 Ten new gravitational waves found in LIGO-Virgo's O3a data In the last seven years, scientists at the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration (LVC) have detected 90 gravitational waves signals. Gravitational waves are perturbations in the fabric of spacetime that race outwards from cataclysmic events like the merger of binary black holes (BBH). In observations from the first half of the most recent experimental run, which continued for six months in 2019, the collaboration reported signals from 44 BBH events. 09:43 10 new gravitational waves found in LIGO-Virgo's O3a data Astrophysicists re-examined LIGO-Virgo's O3a data and found 10 additional black hole mergers, all outside the detection threshold of the original analysis. The new mergers hint at exotic astrophysical scenarios that, for now, are only possible to study using gravitational wave astronomy. 07.04.2022 23:20 Hunting for gravitational waves from monster black holes Our universe is a chaotic sea of ripples in space-time called gravitational waves. Astronomers think waves from orbiting pairs of supermassive black holes in distant galaxies are light-years long and have been trying to observe them for decades, and now they're one step. 21:23 The hunt for the gravitational wave background Scientists show that using gamma rays instead of radio waves yields a clearer view to the pulsars and provides an independent and complementary way to detect gravitational waves. 21:22 Astronomers find a new way to detect gravitational waves Gamma rays from distant pulsars could help find merging supermassive black holes 21:02 FERMI satellite hunts for extremely long wavelength gravitational wave signals Coalescing supermassive black holes in the centers of merging galaxies fill the universe with low-frequency gravitational waves. Astronomers have been searching for these waves by using large radio telescopes to look for the subtle effect these spacetime ripples have on radio waves emitted by pulsars within our galaxy. Now, an international team of scientists has shown that the high-energy light collected by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope can also be used in the search. Using gamma rays instead of radio waves yields a clearer view to the pulsars and provides an independent and complementary way to detect gravitational waves. 13:26 High school student scouring gravitational wave data makes neutron star discovery Around the world, astrophysicists are poring over the blips of gravitational waves that ripple through Earth when distant black holes or neutron stars collide. Most don't also attend high school. 02.04.2022 01:12 New algorithm could be quantum leap in search for gravitational waves A new method of identifying gravitational wave signals using quantum computing could provide a valuable new tool for future astrophysicists. 01.04.2022 16:42 Astrophysicists set constraints on compact dark matter from gravitational wave microlensing The existence of dark matter remains one of the greatest mysteries of the universe. While studies have indirectly hinted at its existence, its invisible nature makes this elusive substance very difficult to detect, thus its composition remains unknown. 23.03.2022 13:10 How the Moon Might Help Detect Gravitational Waves Precise laser ranging of the lunar orbit could reveal low-frequency radiation from the dawn of time. 22.03.2022 21:56 Researcher documents what happened during the first attempt at a gravitational-wave observatory in Europe First predicted in Einstein's theory of general relativity, gravitational waves are tiny ripples in spacetime generated by titanic and powerful cosmic events. The great physicist believed that no equipment would ever be sensitive to detect these faint cosmic ripples. Fortunately, Einstein was wrong, but that doesn't mean that the detection of gravitational waves has been easy. 18.03.2022 02:46 Seattle-area high school senior awarded$250,000 for gravitational wave research

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17.03.2022
19:59 Moon's orbit proposed as a gravitational wave detector

Researchers propose using the variations in distance between the Earth and the Moon, which can be measured with a precision of less than a centimeter, as a new gravitational wave detector within a frequency range that current devices cannot detect. The research could pave the way for the detection of signals from the early universe.

16:57 Moon's orbit proposed as a gravitational wave detector

Researchers from the UAB, IFAE and University College London propose using the variations in distance between the Earth and the moon, which can be measured with a precision of less than a centimeter, as a new gravitational wave detector within a frequency range that current devices cannot detect. The research, which could pave the way for the detection of signals from the early universe, was published recently in Physical Review Letters.

16:43 Moon's orbit proposed as a gravitational wave detector

Scientists propose using the variations in distance between the Earth and the Moon, which can be measured with a precision of less than a centimeter, as a new gravitational wave detector within a frequency range that current devices cannot detect.

15.03.2022
22:06 Gravitational wave mirror experiments can evolve into quantum entities

Scientists review research on gravitational wave detectors as a historical example of quantum technologies and examine the fundamental research on the connection between quantum physics and gravity. The team examined recent gravitational wave experiments, showing it is possible to shield large objects from strong influences from the thermal and seismic environment to allow them to evolve as one quantum object. This decoupling from the environment enables measurement sensitivities that would otherwise be impossible.

18:06 Gravitational wave mirror experiments can evolve into quantum entities

Quantum physical experiments exploring the motion of macroscopic or heavy bodies under gravitational forces require protection from any environmental noise and highly efficient sensing.

11.03.2022
22:00 Focus: The Moon as a Gravitational-Wave Detector

Author(s): Mark BuchananThanks to a new analysis technique, precision measurements of the Earth-Moon distance should improve estimates of the size of the gravitational-wave background. [Physics 15, 34] Published Fri Mar 11, 2022

19:56 Detecting stochastic gravitational waves with binary resonance

Author(s): Diego Blas and Alexander C. JenkinsThanks to a new analysis technique, precision measurements of the Earth-Moon distance should improve estimates of the size of the gravitational-wave background. [Phys. Rev. D 105, 064021] Published Fri Mar 11, 2022

19:56 Bridging the $μ\mathrm{Hz}$ Gap in the Gravitational-Wave Landscape with Binary Resonances

Author(s): Diego Blas and Alexander C. JenkinsThanks to a new analysis technique, precision measurements of the Earth-Moon distance should improve estimates of the size of the gravitational-wave background. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 101103] Published Fri Mar 11, 2022

11.02.2022
00:38 Future gravitational wave detector in space could uncover secrets of the Universe

New research has shown that future gravitational wave detections from space will be capable of finding new fundamental fields and potentially shed new light on unexplained aspects of the Universe.

10.02.2022
20:30 Future gravitational wave detector in space could uncover secrets of the Universe

New research has shown that future gravitational wave detections from space will be capable of finding new fundamental fields and potentially shed new light on unexplained aspects of the Universe.

20:30 Study describes challenges and opportunities for detection of high-frequency gravitational waves

Electromagnetic (EM) waves and gravitational waves are the only available means to study the Universe on a large scale. For millennia, only the former could be used, in naked-eye astronomical observations by the ancients based on the reception of visible light, or present-day super telescopes operating in various bands of the EM spectrum, from radio waves to gamma rays.

20:07 Gravitational waves: LISA and the detection of new fundamental fields

Is General Relativity the correct theory of gravitation?  Can gravity be used to detect new fundamental fields?

01.02.2022
18:55 Search for a Scalar Induced Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background in the Third LIGO-Virgo Observing Run

Author(s): Alba Romero-Rodríguez, Mario Martínez, Oriol Pujolàs, Mairi Sakellariadou, and Ville VaskonenData from the second and third runs of LIGO and Virgo is used to place stringent bounds on gravitational backgrounds induced by primordial black holes. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 051301] Published Tue Feb 01, 2022

31.01.2022
10:07 Inference-optimized AI and high performance computing for gravitational wave detection at scale

Ground-based gravitational wave interferometers like LIGO have detected tens of gravitational wave sources. Further scientific progress would be

27.01.2022
22:01 Astronomers close in on new way to detect gravitational waves

17:52 Strange gravitational wave echoes may let us probe dark matter

When gravitational waves pass over massive objects, they should create an echo that could allow us to examine objects that we can’t otherwise see, including dark matter

17.01.2022
13:34 Researchers contribute to promising global search for gravitational waves

An international team including Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Stephen Taylor, postdoctoral fellow in multi-messenger astrophysics Nihan Pol, graduate student

12.01.2022
21:52 New evidence of a gravitational wave background

The results of a comprehensive search for a background of ultra-low frequency gravitational waves has been announced by an international team of astronomers.

19:41 International collaboration offers new evidence of a gravitational wave background

The results of a comprehensive search for a background of ultra-low frequency gravitational waves has been announced by an international team of astronomers including scientists from the Institute for Gravitational Wave Astronomy at the University of Birmingham.

12:59 The search for an isotropic gravitational wave background

An international team of astronomers has announced the results of a comprehensive search for a background of low-frequency gravitational waves. These light-year-scale ripples, a consequence of general relativity, permeate all of spacetime and could originate from mergers of the most massive black holes in the Universe or from events occurring soon after the formation of the Universe in the Big Bang.

03.01.2022
18:47 Breakthrough in the nonlinear generation of primordial gravitational waves

In a Physics Review Letters paper published on Dec 15th, an international research team, led by Cai Yifu, Professor of the University of Science and Technology of China, and his collaborators discovered the hypothetical possibility of resonantly generating primordial gravitational waves within the high energy physics when the universe was in the babyhood. The originally invisible gravitational wave signals can be amplified by parametric resonance by 4 to 6 orders of magnitude or even larger through this phenomenon, and then become likely to be probed by primordial gravitational wave detectors, hence, validating some theoretical models of the very early universe that are "inaccesible" in traditional observational windows.

21.12.2021
19:04 Turbocharged data analysis could prevent gravitational wave computing crunch

A new method of analyzing the complex data from massive astronomical events could help gravitational wave astronomers avoid a looming computational crunch.

20.12.2021
13:56 Gravitational wave scientists set their sights on dark matter

Thought to make up roughly 85% of all matter in the Universe, dark matter has never been observed

16.12.2021
18:06 Gravitational wave scientists set their sights on dark matter

The technologies behind one of the biggest scientific breakthroughs of the century—the detection of gravitational waves—are now being used in the long-standing search for dark matter.

15.12.2021
20:02 Searching for Gravitational Waves from Cosmological Phase Transitions with the NANOGrav 12.5-Year Dataset

Author(s): Zaven Arzoumanian et al. (NANOGrav Collaboration)Astronomical observations of pulsars have provided new information about a possible phase transition in the early Universe. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 251302] Published Wed Dec 15, 2021

19:16 Direct limits for scalar field dark matter from a gravitational-wave detector

08.12.2021
21:40 Gravitational waves could be key to answering why more matter was left over after Big Bang

If researchers can detect Q-balls in gravitational waves, it could help explain why more matter than anti-matter was left over after the Big Bang.

18:28 Gravitational Waves Should Permanently Distort Space-Time

The “gravitational memory effect” predicts that a passing gravitational wave should forever alter the structure of space-time. Physicists have linked the phenomenon to fundamental cosmic symmetries and a potential solution to the black hole information paradox. The post Gravitational Waves Should Permanently Distort Space-Time first appeared on Quanta Magazine

15:28 Gravitational waves could be key to answering why more matter was left over after Big Bang

A team of theoretical researchers have found it might be possible to detect Q-balls in gravitational waves, and their detection would answer why more matter than anti-matter to be left over after the Big Bang, reports a new study in Physical Review Letters.

11:48 Gravitational waves could be key to answering why more matter was left over after Big Bang

A team of theoretical researchers have found it might be possible to detect Q-balls in gravitational waves, and their detection would answer why more matter than anti-matter to be left over after the Big Bang.

24.11.2021
12:30 COVID deaths, gravitational waves and pandemic PhD supervision

11.11.2021
04:37 Astrophysicists unveil glut of gravitational-wave detections

10.11.2021
22:34 Astrophysicists Unveil Glut of Gravitational-wave Detections

The latest bounty of 35 events features oddball black holes and a miniature neutron star -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

18:01 Using machine learning to derive black hole motion from gravitational waves

The announcement that the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) had detected gravitational waves during the merger of two black holes sent ripples throughout the scientific community in 2016. The earthshaking news not only confirmed one of Albert Einstein's key predictions in his general theory of relativity, but also opened a door to a better understanding of the motion of black holes and other spacetime-warping phenomena.

10:13 LLNL-led team uses machine learning to derive black hole motion from gravitational waves

The announcement that the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) had detected gravitational waves during the merger of two

09.11.2021
22:28 'Tsunami' of gravitational waves sets record for most ever space-time ripples detected

The waves allow for vital glimpses of objects that don't produce much light.

17:50 'Tsunami' of Cosmic Gravitational Waves Offers Key to Probing Mystery of Universe's Evolution

Although Albert Einstein introduced the phenomenon known as gravitational waves, scientists were only able to test general relativity for their presence six years ago, after scientists at the LIGO and Virgo collaboration detected for the first time ripples in space and time caused by the merging of two black holes.

16:55 Astrophysicists unveil glut of gravitational-wave detections

11:41 Black holes of ‘all shapes and sizes’ in new gravitational wave catalogue

The largest catalogue of gravitational wave events ever assembled has been released with dozens of ripples in space

08.11.2021
18:03 Scientists detect a 'tsunami' of gravitational waves

A team of international scientists, including researchers from The Australian National University (ANU), have unveiled the largest number of gravitational waves ever detected.

28.10.2021
20:12 Scientists take a significant step forward in detecting Nanohertz Gravitational-wave background

The European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA) is a scientific collaboration bringing together teams of astronomers around the largest

27.10.2021
16:50 Scientists take a significant step forward in detecting nanohertz gravitational-wave background

The European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA) is a scientific collaboration bringing together teams of astronomers around the largest European radio telescopes, as well as groups specialized in data analysis and modeling of gravitational wave (GW) signals.

13:06 Towards the detection of the nanohertz gravitational-wave background

The EPTA collaboration reports on the outcome of a 24 year observing campaign with five large-aperture radio telescopes in Europe, resulting in a candidate signal for the since-long sought gravitational wave background.

25.10.2021
17:58 Primordial Gravitational Waves Continue to Elude Astronomers

The standard model of cosmology is a remarkably powerful and accurate description of the universe, tracing its evolution

20.10.2021
11:00 Gravitational Waves Reveal Surprising Secrets About Neutron Stars

The confirmation of gravitational waves back in 2017 continues to unlock whole new worlds of physics but also

19.10.2021
21:20 Low-Noise Optical Coatings Could Swell LIGO’s Reach

Improved mirror coatings might cut background noise in gravitational-wave observatories in half, expanding the volume of space they can explore by a factor of eight.

18.10.2021
20:41 Uncovering the secrets of ultra-low frequency gravitational waves

New methods of detecting ultra-low frequency gravitational waves can be combined with other, less sensitive measurements to deliver fresh insights into the early development of our universe, according to researchers.

18:10 Uncovering the secrets of ultra-low frequency gravitational waves

New methods of detecting ultra-low frequency gravitational waves can be combined with other, less sensitive measurements to deliver fresh insights into the early development of our universe, according to researchers at the University of Birmingham.

04.10.2021
18:03 Improved Constraints on Primordial Gravitational Waves using

Author(s): P. A. R. Ade et al. (BICEP/ Collaboration)An updated search for primordial gravitational waves has not found a signal, which implies that some popular early Universe models are becoming less viable. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 151301] Published Mon Oct 04, 2021

03.10.2021
16:35 Low-Noise Optical Coatings Could Swell LIGO’s Reach

Improved mirror coatings might cut background noise in gravitational-wave observatories in half, expanding the volume of space they can explore by a factor of eight.

30.09.2021
10:31 Extending LIGO’s Reach Into the Cosmos

In the future, as more and more upgrades are made to the National Science Foundation-funded LIGO observatories—one in Hanford,

29.09.2021
23:46 Extending LIGO's reach into the cosmos

New mirror coatings will increase the volume of space LIGO can probe in its next run.

22.09.2021
18:29 Gravitational Waves or Cosmic Rays? Strange Signals Reportedly Picked Up by 'Tabletop Detector'

The researchers now reportedly intend to develop an upgrade of the detector and to extend their reach "to even higher frequencies, where no other experiments have looked before."

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