Space and astronomy news
For their immeasurable contributions to the discovery of gravitational waves, Caltech professors Kip S. Thorne and Barry C. Barish, and MIT professor emeritus Rainer Weiss, were awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics.
The Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors recently made the first simultaneous detection of gravitational waves, ushering in a new era of research.
A new study by a team from UCI indicates that black hole mergers could be very common, which has implications for the study of black holes and gravitational waves
While we tend to think of Mach One as being the speed it takes to break the sound barrier, its a bit more complicated than that, and requires a little math!
The ESA recently decided to move forward with its LISA mission, a trio of satellites that will be the first space-based gravitational wave detector.
In a new article, Dr. Morris Jones of METI International proposed expanding our search for evidence of intelligent life by examining more exotic forms of communication
A team of researchers questions the existence of an event horizon around black holes and wonders what it would look like when a star collides with one.
A new study by a team of researchers from Monash University argues that gravitational waves may permanently alter the fabric of spacetime.
A new study by a team of researchers from UBC proposes a new vision of Dark Energy, where fluctuations in spacetime allow for a net expanding effect that is slowly accelerating
Thanks to an international effort and multiple radio telescopes, astronomers have visualized an event horizon for the first time.