Gravitational Waves
What Happens When Supermassive Black Holes Merge?
Frame from a simulation of the merger of two black holes and the resulting emission of gravitational radiation (NASA/C. Henze)…
Students Discover Millisecond Pulsar, Help in the Search for Gravitational Waves
[/caption] A special project to search for pulsars has bagged the first student discovery of a millisecond pulsar – a…
LISA Pathfinder – Surfing Gravity Waves
[/caption] Do you remember the LISA mission? I do! The proposed launch for this unique vision is slated for 2014…
Searching For Gravitational Waves
[/caption]Colliding neutron stars and black holes, supernova events, rotating neutron stars and other cataclysmic cosmic events… Einstein predicted they would…
New Pulsar “Clocks” Will Aid Gravitational Wave Detection
This illustration shows a pulsar's magnetic field (blue) creates narrow beams of radiation (magenta). Image credit: NASA How do you…
New Limits on Gravitational Waves From the Big Bang
[/caption] The only way to know what the Universe was like at the moment of the Big Bang requires analysis…