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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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 ...
Gravitational Waves Create A 'Cosmic Symphony' That Scientists Are Tuning Into
Scientists are using pulsars to detect the gravitational wave 'hum' created from supermassive black hole mergers. Credit: National Science Foundation (NSF) ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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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LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA 2024 Meeting on Gravitational Waves
The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration Meeting officially kicked off in Barcelona, bringing together nearly 800 researchers from around the world to ...
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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Vanderbilt AI Fellowship Advances Black Hole Detection
Hunting for black holes sounds like the premise of a new Hollywood blockbuster, but at Vanderbilt University, Assistant Professor of Physics and ...
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 first-ever detection of gravitational waves (GWs). These events occur when ...