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Gravitational Wave Detector LIGO Is Finally Back Online With Exciting Upgrades to Make It Way More Sensitive

After a three-year hiatus, scientists in the US have just turned on detectors capable of measuring gravitational waves—tiny ripples in space itself that travel...

LIGO Gravitational Wave Detector Returns with Enhanced Sensitivity through Exciting Upgrades

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is a groundbreaking scientific instrument that has revolutionized our understanding of the universe. It is a collaborative project...

Precision mass measurements of nuclei reveal neutron star properties

May 05, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Researchers at the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and their collaborators recently...

Astronomers Link a Mysterious Fast Radio Burst With Gravitational Waves for the First Time

A team of colleagues and I have just published evidence in Nature Astronomy for what might be producing mysterious bursts of radio waves coming...

The search for the missing gravitational signal

Mar 27, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Every year, hundreds of thousands of pairs of black holes merge in a cosmic dance that emits gravitational waves...

Doomed to explode in a kilonova, rare star system is discovered by astronomers

The first observation of a stellar system that is destined to explode as a kilonova...

The perfect explosion in space – the mystery of the spherical kilonova

Feb 20, 2023 (Nanowerk News) When neutron stars collide, they produce an explosion that, contrary to what was believed until recently, is shaped almost...

‘I see a piece of myself in every student that I’ve mentored, and we motivate each other’ – Wen-fai Fong on supporting the next...

Wen-fai Fong, assistant professor in physics and astronomy and head of Northwestern University’s Fong group, talks to Rob Lea about her journey into...

NASA to cooperate on Israeli astrophysics mission

WASHINGTON — The United States and Israel are finalizing an agreement that would see NASA contribute to an upcoming Israeli astrophysics mission. The focus of...

Ripples in the fabric of the universe may reveal the start of time

Jan 20, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Scientists have advanced in discovering how to use ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves to peer back to...

Geometric tensor measured in a superconducting quantum circuit

Researchers at Nanjing University in China have used a superconducting quantum chip to simulate a...

Deep-space discovery: Oddball gamma-ray burst forces revision of theoretical framework

Dec 08, 2022 (Nanowerk News) The mysteries of the cosmos continue to amaze astronomers, and with each new observation comes a chance to deepen...

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