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Patricia Schmidt receives funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) through grants ST/V005677/1 and ST/Y00423X/1, and The Royal Society through a Research Grant RG\R1\241327. Geraint Pratten is ...
A decade ago, the universe whispered, and humanity, for the first time, had the tools to listen. On September 14, 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) made history with ...
Researchers celebrate 10th anniversary of gravitational wave discovery, announce verification of a Hawking theorem. Two black holes spiral together and violently merge in this simulation of an event ...
Scientists have used a gravitational wave detector to "hear" two black holes getting bigger as they merged into a single, gigantic entity. The detection, made by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational ...
Gravitational-wave astronomy has exploded since 2015, capturing hundreds of black hole and neutron star collisions. With ever-clearer signals, researchers are testing Einstein’s relativity and Hawking ...
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Ten years after LIGO’s historical detection of gravitational waves, the project is cracking black hole mysteries at an astounding pace. reading time 4 minutes LIGO’s discovery of gravitational ...
On Sept. 14, 2015, physicists attained the long-sought goal of detecting gravitational waves, the shockwaves spewed out by such cataclysmic events as the violent merger of two black holes. Now, in the ...