Gravitational Waves
Barfing Neutron Stars Reveal Their Inner Guts
We don't really understand neutron stars. Oh, we know that they are - they're the leftover remnants of some of…
LIGO Just Got a Big Upgrade, Will Begin Searching for Gravitational Waves Again on April 1st
After undergoing upgrades, the LIGO observatory will be going back online this April, with "almost daily" detections of gravitational wave…
New Gravitational Waves Detected From Four More Black Hole Mergers. Total Detections up to 11 Now
The LIGO and Virgo collaborations recently announced the detection of four more gravitational wave events, bringing the total to eleven.
Gravitational waves were only recently observed, and now astronomers are already thinking of ways to use them: like accurately measuring the expansion rate of the Universe
Neutron stars scream in waves of spacetime when they die, and astronomers have outlined a plan to use their gravitational …
It Could be Possible to Transfer Data Through Gravitational Waves
A new study by a team of Russian scientists demonstrates how gravitational waves could be encoded to send information, in…
Gravitational Waves Might be the Key to Finding Dark Matter
Exotic dark matter theories. Gravitational waves. Observatories in space. Giant black holes. Colliding galaxies. Lasers. If you're a fan of…
Inside the Crust of Neutron Stars, There’s Nuclear Pasta; the Hardest Known Substance in the Universe
A new study has shown that "nuclear pasta", which exists beneath crust of a neutron star, is the strongest material…
Last Year’s Gravitational Wave Detections Failed to Provide a Hint of Any Extra Spatial Dimensions
In a new study, astrophysicists used the gravitational waves from last year's kilonova event to determine if the Universe has…
Superfast Jet of Material Blasted Out From Last Year’s Neutron Star Merger
According to a new study by an international team of astronomers, last year's kilonova event (where two neutron stars merged)…
Okay, Last Year’s Kilonova Did Probably Create a Black Hole
The kilonova event that took place last year, where two neutron stars merged, is now believed to have formed a…