Detecting Gravitational Waves from Earth
German researchers from the Albert Einstein Institute (AEI) say that the likelihood of detecting proposed universal patterns called gravitational waves from Earth could increase significantly if just a...
View ArticleSqueezed laser will bring gravitational waves to the light of day
The new squeezed light laser of GEO600. A highly complex laser system produces light which particularly quiet in the gravitational wave detector. Credit: © Max Planck Institute for Gravitational...
View ArticleHow Superconductors Can Detect Gravitational Waves
Superconducting metal bars could revolutionise the detection of gravitational waves, says physicists Gravitational waves are vibrations in the fabric of spacetime. They are among the most exciting...
View ArticleGravity waves spotted from white-dwarf pair
An artist’s conception of the white dwarf pair shows how they would radiate spirals of gravitational waves By Jason Palmer Researchers have spotted visible-light evidence for one of astronomy’s most...
View ArticleFirst Observation of Gravitational Waves is ‘Imminent’
Gravitational wave strain and strain sensitivity for a 5 year observation with PTAs Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of spacetime caused by cataclysmic events such as neutron stars...
View ArticleSpace-time waves may be hiding in dead star pulses
Beating heart of galaxy mergers (Image: MPI for Gravitational Physics/W. Benger-ZIB)) by Lisa Grossman TAKE the pulse of the universe, and its invisible wrinkles become visible. The first direct...
View ArticleInterfering atoms could help detect gravitational waves
An artist’s impression of gravitational waves from two orbiting black holes. (Courtesy: T Carnahan, NASA GSFC) Scientists in California have proposed a new type of gravitational-wave detector that is...
View ArticleThe Quantum Enhanced LIGO Detector Sets New Sensitivity Record
Recent progress in generating quantum states of squeezed vacuum has made it possible to enhance the sensitivity of the 4 km gravitational wave detector at the LIGO Hanford Observatory to an...
View ArticleGravitational Waves Help Us Understand Black-Hole Weight Gain
Supermassive black holes: every large galaxy’s got one. But here’s a real conundrum: how did they grow so big? Gravitational waves distort space, altering the regular signals from pulsars received by...
View ArticleHunting Gravitational Waves with Lasers
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View ArticleLIGO, A Passion for Understanding
… a film by Kai Staats Read more at http://www.space.com/25494-ligo-documentary-watch-live.html
View ArticleRumours swirl over credibility of big bang ripple find
Has the recent discovery of gravitational waves been reduced to dust? Not so fast. The news that ripples in space-time, called gravitational waves, had been spotted stunned the physics community...
View ArticleAstronomers Hedge on Big Bang Detection Claim
By DENNIS OVERBYE A group of astronomers who announced in March that they had detected space-time disturbances — gravity waves — from the beginning of the Big Bang repeated that claim Thursday but...
View ArticleGiant laser observatory makes progress
The first generation of Ligo failed to find evidence of gravitational waves By Maria Dasi Espuig The Advanced Ligo instrument, a laser “ruler” built to measure the traces of gravitational waves, is...
View ArticleThe Apollo Missions And The Hunt for Gravitational Waves
Apollo astronauts left an array of seismometers to study moonquakes. Now astrophysicists are scouring the data for evidence of gravitational waves One of the great unanswered questions in science is...
View ArticlePlanck: Gravitational waves remain elusive
Despite earlier reports of a possible detection, a joint analysis of data from ESA’s Planck satellite and the ground-based BICEP2 and Keck Array experiments has found no conclusive evidence of...
View ArticleLIGO Generations – The Film
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View ArticleGravitational Waves from a Dark Phase Transition
Pedro Schwaller In this work, we show that a large class of models with a composite dark sector undergo a strong first order phase transition in the early Universe, which could lead to a detectable...
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