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Did gravitational wave detector find dark matter
Jun 18, 2016 (SPX)
The eight scientists from the Johns Hopkins Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy had already started making calculations when the discovery by t...
New Gravitational-Wave Finder Scores Again
Jun 16, 2016 (SPX)
Less than four months after the historic first-ever detection of gravitational waves, scientists on a team that includes Penn State University physicists and as...
New Gravitational-Wave Finder Scores Again - embargo Wednesday, 15 June 2016, 10:15 am PDT
Jun 15, 2016 (SPX)
Less than four months after the historic first-ever detection of gravitational waves, scientists on a team that includes Penn State University physicists and as...
Gravitational Waves Spotted Again - embargo Wednesday, 15 June 2016, 10:15am PDT
Jun 15, 2016 (SPX)
On 26 December 2015, scientists from the LIGO and Virgo collaborations received an unexpected Christmas gift when the Advanced LIGO detectors recorded a new gra...
Gravitational-Wave Spacecraft Sets New Free-Fall Record
Jun 10, 2016 (SPX)
A key component of a future gravitational wave observatory passed a series of tests with flying colors, while coming closer to experiencing true free fall than ...
LISA Pathfinder Exceeds Expectations
Jun 09, 2016 (SPX)
The ESA satellite mission LISA Pathfinder has successfully demonstrated the technology for a gravitational wave observatory in space such as LISA. After a pictu...
A new 'Einstein ring' is discovered
Jun 01, 2016 (SPX)
The PhD student Margherita Bettinelli, of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL), together with an international t...
When neutron stars emit gravitational waves
May 12, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam have developed an accurate model for the detection and interpretation of gravitation...
Space Microscope to test universality of freefall
May 03, 2016 (ESA)
France's Microscope satellite, carrying a set of ESA high-tech thrusters, lifted off last night from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, taking advanta...
Dutch-German impulse for gravitational wave research
Apr 27, 2016 (SPX)
Prof. Dr. Karsten Danzmann, director at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Hannover and Prof. Dr. Stan Bentvelsen, director of the National I...
Fermi telescope poised to pin down gravitational wave sources
Apr 20, 2016 (SPX)
On Sept. 14, waves of energy traveling for more than a billion years gently rattled space-time in the vicinity of Earth. The disturbance, produced by a pair of ...
NASA's Fermi telescope poised to pin down gravitational wave sources
Apr 19, 2016 (SPX)
Last year on Sept. 14, waves of energy traveling for more than a billion years gently rattled space-time in the vicinity of Earth. The disturbance, produced by ...
Gravitational waves offer insights into galaxy evolution and mergers
Apr 07, 2016 (SPX)
New results from NANOGrav - the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves - establish astrophysically significant limits in the search for lo...
WVU astrophysicists part of gravitational wave search
Apr 06, 2016 (SPX)
On the heels of their participation in the historic research that resulted in the detection of gravitational waves, West Virginia University astrophysicists con...
Continuing the Search for Gravitational Waves
Mar 30, 2016 (SPX)
In February, the LIGO Scientific Collaboration announced it had detected gravitational waves for the first time, confirming the last prediction of Albert Einste...
Gravity glasses offer a view of the Earth's interior
Mar 22, 2016 (SPX)
How does the ice on the polar caps change? And which are the geological characteristics of the Earth's crust beneath? What is the structure of the boundary betw...
Scientists demonstrate the wavelike nature of van der Waals Forces
Mar 18, 2016 (SPX)
Like the gravitational forces that are responsible for the attraction between the Earth and the moon as well as the dynamics of the entire solar system, there e...
LISA Pathfinder begins its science mission
Mar 10, 2016 (SPX)
After completing a long series of tests on the spacecraft and payload, the ESA mission LISA Pathfinder has started its science mission. Over the next six months...
A perfectly still laboratory in space
Mar 10, 2016 (ESA)
Following a long series of tests, ESA's LISA Pathfinder has started its science mission to prove key technologies and techniques needed to observe gravitational...
Freefall achieved on LISA Pathfinder
Feb 25, 2016 (ESA)
On Monday, the two cubes housed in the core of ESA's LISA Pathfinder were left to move under the effect of gravity alone - another milestone towards demonstrati...
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