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The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is celebrating 10 years of cutting-edge gravitational wave science by confirming predictions made by physics luminaries Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking and Roy Kerr — and potentially revealing a path toward a theory of quantum gravity. LIGO achieved this latest milestone by detecting gravitational waves, or tiny ripples in spacetime. The existence of gravitational waves …

Using gravitational waves, tiny ripples in space-time first predicted by Albert Einstein back in 1915, astronomers have discovered that a “stellar graveyard” is packed with mergers between extreme stellar remnants like black holes and neutron stars, created when massive stars die in supernova explosions. Evidence of these mergers also came in the form of the most massive binary black holes …

Gravitational Wave Research Is Advancing at an Astonishing Pace  extremetech.com More black hole collisions detected than ever before  port.ac.uk Gloabl team expands gravitational wave catalogue with 128 new detections  Space Daily LIGO, facing threats of closure, more than doubles its black hole haul  Big Think Scientists decode new black hole behavior from gravitational wave data  news.cgtn.com Source link

Nobel physicist key to world’s 1st gravitational wave discovery in Eastern WA dies  Tri-City Herald Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss, influential physicist who forged new paths to understanding the universe, dies at 92  MIT News Nobel prize winner and gravitational wave pioneer Rainer Weiss dies at 92  Space Rainer Weiss, Who Gave a Nod to Einstein and the Big Bang, Dies at 92  The New …

“36-Billion-Sun Black Hole Found Sleeping”: Astronomers Spot Hidden Giant in Orange Galaxy Using Precision Gravitational Lensing  Rude Baguette ‘Most massive black hole ever discovered’ is detected  The Royal Astronomical Society The biggest black hole ever seen? Scientists find one with mass of 36 billion suns  Space A 36 Billion Solar Mass Black Hole Detected Thanks To Gravitational Lensing  Universe Today We’ve discovered the most …

Just as ocean waves shape our shores, ripples in space-time may have once set the Universe on an evolutionary path that led to the cosmos as we see it today. A new theory suggests gravitational waves – rather than hypothetical particles called inflatons – drove the Universe’s early expansion, and the redistribution of matter therein. “For decades, we have tried …

A team of scientists led by expert Raúl Jiménez, ICREA researcher at the University of Barcelona’s Institute of Cosmos Sciences (ICCUB), in collaboration with the University of Padua (Italy), has presented a revolutionary theory about the origins of the Universe. The study, published in the journal Physical Review Research, introduces a radical change in the understanding of the first moments …

Scientists have detected the most massive merger of black holes ever. This titanic collision, “heard” in ripples in spacetime called gravitational waves, involves black holes so massive that it could challenge current models of the universe. The merger was detected by the gravitational wave detector network LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) on Nov. 23, 2023, during the fourth observing run of these three …