gravitational waves

LISA May Reveal the Secret Lives and Deaths of Stars With Gravitational Waves 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 4, 2020
The space telescope LISA will tell astronomers how stars live and die in ways we’ve never known before.

By David Aragorn
Gravitational waves from a ringing black hole support the no-hair theorem 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 18, 2019
General relativity suggests the spacetime oddities can be fully described by their mass and spin

By David Aragorn
A mathematical method for calculating black-hole properties from gravitational-wave data 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- May 11, 2019
Sean McWilliams, an assistant professor at West Virginia University, has developed a mathematical method for calculating black hole properties from gravitational wave data. He has written a paper describing his method and posted it on the arXiv preprint server. The paper has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.

By David Aragorn
LIGO is on the lookout for these 8 sources of gravitational waves 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 7, 2019
Astronomers still hope to catch a star going supernova and a bumpy neutron star, among others

By David Aragorn
Scientists’ collection of gravitational waves just got a lot bigger 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 5, 2018
Scientists added 4 new sets of spacetime ripples to their inventory

By David Aragorn
Gravitational waves created by black holes in the cenetr of most galaxies 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 9, 2018
Gravitational waves may be forged in the heart of the galaxy, says a new study led by PhD student Joseph Fernandez at Liverpool John Moores University. He sets out the work in a presentation on 3rd April at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science in Liverpool.

By David Aragorn
After LIGO detects a third black hole collision, gravitational wave astronomy is here to stay 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 13, 2017
Scientists on the lookout for subtle disturbances in the fabric of space-time have detected the signal from a cataclysmic collision between two black holes that lie some 3 billion light-years away, much farther two previous discoveries.

By David Aragorn
Gravitational waves could show hints of extra dimensions 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Space
- May 17, 2017
Signatures of extra dimensions that don’t normally affect the four dimensions we can observe could show up in the way they warp ripples in space-time

By David Aragorn
Gravitational wave kicks monster black hole out of galactic core 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 31, 2017
Astronomers have uncovered a supermassive black hole that has been propelled out of the center of a distant galaxy by what could be the awesome power of gravitational waves.

By David Aragorn
Second gravitational wave detected from ancient black hole collision 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 17, 2016
Following February’s historic announcement, LIGO has again spotted ripples in the fabric of spacetime, from the collision of a second set of black holes

By David Aragorn