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MSU gravitational physicist receives NASA award to explore extreme gravity and the universe
Jul 26, 2017 (SPX)
NASA awarded $750,000 to Nicolas Yunes for his project "Exploring Extreme Gravity: Neutron Stars, Black Holes and Gravitational Waves." Yunes is a founding memb...
Telescope for detecting optical signals from gravitational waves launched
Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)
The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) was inaugurated at Warwick's astronomical observing facility in the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory ...
First look at gravitational dance that drives stellar formation
Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)
Williams, of Cardiff University, explains: "We've known for some time that dusty, filamentary cloud structures are ubiquitous in the Milky Way's interstellar me...
Hints of Extra Dimensions in Gravitational Waves
Jun 29, 2017 (SPX)
LIGO's first detection of gravitational waves from a black-hole binary in September 2015 has opened a new window onto the universe. Now it looks like with this ...
LISA Gravitational-Wave Observatory Selected as ESA L3 Mission
Jun 28, 2017 (SPX)
They will precisely monitor their relative distance changes with lasers to detect gravitational waves in space. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Grav...
Hubble Astronomers Measure White Dwarf's Mass with Relativity Experiment
Jun 08, 2017 (SPX)
This observation represents the first time Hubble has witnessed this type of effect created by a star. The data provide a solid estimate of the white dwarf's ma...
Are dense star clusters the origin of the gravitational waves discovered by LIGO?
Jun 05, 2017 (SPX)
The origin of each of the trio of gravitational wave events LIGO has recorded to date appears to be the cataclysmic collision of a pair of monstrous black holes...
Breaking Newton's Law
Jun 05, 2017 (SPX)
In the quantum world, however, our intuition for the motion of objects is strongly challenged and may sometimes even completely fail. What about imagining a mar...
Gravitational Waves Detected for Third Time
Jun 02, 2017 (SPX)
The newfound black hole, formed by the merger, has a mass about 49 times that of our Sun. This fills in a gap between the masses of the two merged black holes d...
Study reveals new gravitational wave features
May 28, 2017 (UPI)
Astrophysicists believe LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, could detect high-frequency gravitational waves by measuring a phenomenon...
Monash researchers uncover new gravitational wave characteristics
May 22, 2017 (SPX)
The research, by the Monash Centre for Astrophysics, was published recently in Physical Review Letters. Einstein's theory of general relativity predicts that ca...
Proving Einstein right using highly sensitive Earth rotation sensors
May 11, 2017 (SPX)
Angela Di Virgilio of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics, INFN, in Pisa, Italy, and her colleagues propose using the most sensitive type of inertial sens...
Scientists Find Giant Wave Rolling Through the Perseus Galaxy Cluster
May 03, 2017 (SPX)
The researchers say the wave formed billions of years ago, after a small galaxy cluster grazed Perseus and caused its vast supply of gas to slosh around an enor...
Rare Brightening of Supernova's Light Found by Caltech's Palomar Observatory
Apr 21, 2017 (SPX)
Finding a magnified, or "gravitationally lensed," Type Ia supernova is like discovering a brighter candle with which to view the universe. The researchers say t...
ZERO-G Research aims to advance deep-space mission technology
Apr 07, 2017 (SPX)
As part of NASA's Flight Opportunities Program, Zero Gravity Corporation (ZERO-G) recently worked with research groups from University of Florida, Carthage Coll...
Cells adapt ultra-rapidly to zero gravity
Mar 01, 2017 (SPX)
Mammalian cells are optimally adapted to gravity. But what happens in the microgravity environment of space if the earth's pull disappears? Previously, many exp...
'Gravitational noise' interferes with determining distant sources
Feb 22, 2017 (SPX)
Our Galaxy's gravitational field limits the accuracy of astrometric observations of distant objects. This is most clearly appeared for objects that are visually...
New method uses heat flow to levitate variety of objects
Feb 17, 2017 (SPX)
Although scientists have been able to levitate specific types of material, a pair of UChicago undergraduate physics students helped take the science to a new le...
Increasing the sensitivity of next-generation gravitational wave detectors
Feb 14, 2017 (SPX)
Nearly one year ago the LIGO Collaboration announced the detection of gravitational waves, once again confirming Einstein's theory of General Relativity. This i...
New laser technology from Hannover enables more sensitive gravitational-wave detectors
Feb 10, 2017 (SPX)
One year ago, the first direct detection of gravitational waves was announced. Laser experts from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Ein...
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