Today, team COMPAS (Compact Object Mergers: Population Astrophysics and Statistics) has announced the first public beta release of their rapid binary population synthesis code (available…
A new collaborative study with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) reveals a possible collision of two neutron stars earlier in…
International team uses a novel approach combining gravitational-wave observations, multi-messenger astronomy, and nuclear physics to obtain the best measurement of neutron star size to date….
Since the breakthrough in gravitational wave astronomy back in 2015, scientists have been able to detect more than a dozen pairs of closely located black…
Echoes in gravitational wave signals suggest that the event horizon of a black hole may be more complicated than scientists currently think. Research from the…
A new study by a group of researchers at the University of Birmingham has found that collisions of supermassive black holes may be simultaneously observable…
On April 25, 2019, the LIGO Livingston Observatory picked up what appeared to be gravitational ripples from a collision of two neutron stars. LIGO Livingston…
New instrument extends LIGO’s reach: Technology “squeezes” out quantum noise so more gravitational wave signals can be detected. Just a year ago, the National Science…
LISA Pathfinder, a mission led by ESA (the European Space Agency) that included NASA contributions, successfully demonstrated technologies needed to build a future space-based gravitational…
Shrouded in mystery since their discovery, the phenomenon of black holes continues to be one of the most mind-boggling enigmas in our universe. In recent…
Squeeze leads to stellar-mass black hole collision precision. Scientists at The Australian National University (ANU) have found a way to better detect all collisions of…
Scientists have reported detecting gravitational waves from 10 black hole mergers to date, but they are still trying to explain the origins of those mergers….
By listening for specific tones in the gravitational waves of black hole mergers, researchers are putting Albert Einstein’s theories to new tests. When two black…
Gravitational waves, first detected in 2016, offer a new window on the universe, with the potential to tell us about everything from the time following…
Scientists have carried out a closer analysis of previously recorded data from the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors, tracking down four new signals. They…
Researchers from the University of Portsmouth have made vital contributions to the observations of four new gravitational waves, which were announced this weekend. The new…
Since it first exploded into existence 13.8 billion years ago, the universe has been expanding, dragging along with it hundreds of billions of galaxies and…
Even after the direct measurement of their gravitational waves, there are still mysteries surrounding black holes. What happens when two black holes merge, or when…