Dark Matter Could Be Hiding in Gravitational Wave Data
The team added new limits to how dark matter could interact with the LIGO detector, boosting hopes for future runs.
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We’ve just doubled the number of gravitational waves we can find
Nearly imperceptible quantum flickers used to limit how precisely we could detect the way space-time ripples, but squeezing ...
Future gravitational wave observatories could see the earliest black hole mergers in the universe
In February 2016, scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) confirmed they made the ...
Black hole or neutron star? Gravitational wave 'chirps' can tell us what becomes of dying stars
The current generation of gravitational wave detectors could "hear" supernovas over 65 million light-years away, helping ...
Tiny Primordial Black Holes Could Explain Dark Matter
A new paper explores the idea of asteroid-sized objects that may be causing gravitational ripples in our cosmic neighborhood.
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MIT astrophysicist talks gravitational waves, tech advancement at K-State
A visiting astrophysicist on Monday brought the science of space to Manhattan. Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...
Scientists Might Achieve the Impossible and Actually *See* Gravity
Gravity is the only one of the four fundamental forces whose force carrier, the graviton, has never been directly observed.
Scientists propose a new method to search for dark matter using LIGO
A new study published in Physical Review Letters (PRL) proposes using gravitational wave detectors like LIGO to search for ...
Mössbauer Effect: How Precision Physics Could Reveal the Secrets of Gravitational Waves
Scientists have introduced a groundbreaking method for detecting gravitational waves using Mössbauer resonance, which is ...
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Dark matter detection closer as LIGO’s potential boosted 10,000 times
Scientists propose a new approach to detect scalar field dark matter using LIGO, the gravitational wave observatory.
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‘Impossible’ gravity particle detection within reach as breakthrough method proposed
“We call it the ‘gravito-phononic’ effect.” To increase their chances of detecting gravitons, the team suggests using data ...
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New technique could radically change gravitational wave detection
Scientists at the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) in China have proposed an exciting new way to detect gravitational ...