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A new technology that can improve gravitational-wave detectors, one of the most sensitive instruments used by scientific researchers, has been pioneered by physicists at The…
A supermassive black hole 9 billion light-years away appears to have a companion black hole orbiting around it. As the orbit shrinks, the pair gets…
Astronomers find evidence for the tightest-knit supermassive black hole duo observed to date. Locked in an epic cosmic waltz 9 billion light years away, two…
Astronomers have been using gravitational waves to detect merging black holes for years now, but may have to rely on pulsars – rapidly spinning neutron…
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…
Published in Nature Astronomy the work which shows the unprecedented accuracy with which gravitational wave observations by the space interferometer LISA will be able to…
The technologies behind one of the biggest scientific breakthroughs of the century – the detection of gravitational waves – are now being used in the…
Incredibly sensitive instruments used in landmark discoveries could help solve one of the biggest remaining mysteries in the Universe. The technology behind one of the…
Findings by the Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation published in Nature Astronomy. For the first time, scientists believe they have detected a merger of…
A new international study, led by an Australian researcher from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery, searched for elusive continuous gravitational waves…
A multinational team of astronomers, including scientists from the University of Birmingham’s Institute for Gravity Wave Astronomy, has reported the findings of a comprehensive search…
The largest catalog of gravitational wave events ever assembled has been released by an international collaboration that includes Penn State researchers. Gravitational waves are ripples…
Multimessenger astronomy is an emerging field that aims to study astronomical objects using different ‘messengers’ or sources, like electromagnetic radiation (light), neutrinos, and gravitational waves….
Gravitational waves are cosmic ripples in the fabric of space and time that emanate from catastrophic events in space, like collisions of black holes and…
The hunt for gravitational waves, ripples in space and time caused by major cosmic cataclysms, could help solve one of the Universe’s other burning mysteries…
In a first, astronomers may have seen light from the merger of two black holes, providing opportunities to learn about these mysterious dark objects. This…
Key points: An international team of scientists, including Australian researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav), have collaborated on a…
A team of international scientists, including researchers from The Australian National University (ANU), have unveiled the largest number of gravitational waves ever detected. The discoveries…