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2 weeks, 4 days ago

New Ligo India testing facility to enhance gravitational wave research

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory India facility was officially inaugurated on Thursday marking a significant milestone in India's pursuit of advanced gravitational wave research. ð®ð³@LIGOIndia Facility Inaugurated: Gateway to Gravitational Wave Research in India Dr. A. K. Mohanty, Secretary, DAE & Chairman, AEC, inaugurated the Testing and Training Facility for LIGO-India at #RRCAT, Indore. LIGO-India is set to be the …

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

To map the vibration of the universe, astronomers built a detector the size of the galaxy

Raw Story

Using the largest gravitational wave detector ever made, we have confirmed earlier reports that the fabric of the universe is constantly vibrating. The results from our detector – an array of rapidly spinning neutron stars spread across the galaxy – show this “gravitational wave background” may be louder than previously thought. The high-frequency gravitational waves created by collisions between relatively …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science 2024

ABC

Robyn Williams: And so back to those Prime Minister's prizes given on Tuesday at Parliament House in Canberra. Robyn Williams: And the winner of the Prime Minister's main prize this year, as foreshadowed at the start of this Science Show, is Professor Matthew Bailes, born in Alice Springs, now at Swinburne University in Melbourne, where he leads a really impressive …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Nobel Prizes, Prime Minister's Science Prizes, unis under pressure, and remembering Mawson

ABC

Matthew Bailes: It's the most incredible thing I've ever seen. Robyn Williams: And the winner of the Prime Minister's main prize this year, as foreshadowed at the start of this Science Show, is Professor Matthew Bailes, born in Alice Springs, now at Swinburne University in Melbourne, where he leads a really impressive team, as we reported when it was set …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

European space agency to establish gravitational wave detector Lisa in space

India Today

The European Space Agency has approved and adopted the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna into its mission lineup, with plans to launch the pioneering observatory in the mid-2030s. This marks a significant milestone for LISA, which aims to be the first space-based facility dedicated to detecting gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of space-time caused by massive celestial events. Gravitational waves …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

Mint Explainer: Why black holes are on India’s radar

Live Mint

If you watched Christopher Nolan’s 2014 movie Interstellar, you would be familiar with the word black hole, even if you do not fully understand what it means. In December 2021, the US-based National Aeronautics Space Agency launched the imaging X-ray polarimetry explorer mission to explore the remnants of supernova explosions, the particle streams emitted by black holes and other cosmic …

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1 year ago

Three-body solution: These massive blue stars may not be duos, but threesomes instead

Salon

Be stars are weird. Related How gravitational waves are opening up the hidden corners of the universe to human eyes As the authors explain in their study, Be stars "are rapidly rotating stars surrounded by a disc; however the origin of this rotation remains unclear," with the previous main hypothesis being that that two close stars transfer mass between themselves. …

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1 year, 2 months ago

How sound is providing new clues about the Universe

BBC

How sound is providing new clues about the Universe Getty Images Much of what we know about the Universe comes from the different types of light we can detect, but some astronomers are trying to listen as well as look Astronomy is often thought of as a visual science that produces stunning images of the cosmos. Other instruments detect black …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Indian group proposes radical new way to settle universe expansion dispute

The Hindu

About 13.8 billion years ago, a really small, really dense, and really hot spot lying beyond spacetime began to expand. A crisis In 1929, American astronomer Edwin Hubble provided the first mathematical description of the universe’s expansion in an equation called Hubble’s law. Souvik Jana, a doctoral student with Prof. Ajith and the lead author of the current study, built …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Third LIGO project will put India on research map

The Hindu

All of us have some sense of the limitless expanse of the Universe. In the cosmos, gravitational waves are the outcome of far-flung cataclysmic events like powerful supernovae and the collision of black holes or neutron stars. LIGO India LIGO – an acronym for Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory – is a colossal physics experiment designed to detect gravitational waves. It …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Science for All | Why does observing gravitational waves matter?

The Hindu

Last week, scientists revealed evidence that the universe is constantly flooded with low-frequency gravitational waves, unlocking new avenues to expand our knowledge of the universe. In 2016, scientists working with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory announced that they had detected signals of gravitational waves emanating from two merging black holes, 1.3 billion light years away. Observing the information carried by …

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1 year, 5 months ago

First Evidence Of Gravitational Waves At Very Low Frequencies Hum Linked To Cosmic Clocks Pulsars Supermassive Black Hole Binary NANOGrav

ABP News

In a breakthrough, scientists have found the first evidence of gravitational waves at very low frequencies. In a black hole binary, the two black holes orbit each other, and produce low-frequency gravitational waves. Professor Lam told ABP Live that supermassive black hole binaries are the most probable cause behind these very low-frequency gravitational waves because a supermassive black hole is …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Science This Week | Euclid telescope blasts off to study the ‘dark’ universe and more

The Hindu

This week has been significant for the scientific world with scientists discovering the background hum of the universe caused by gravitational waves, imaging the Milky Way with neutrinos and even capture Saturn’s ring glowing in infrared wavelength. ESA’s Euclid blasts off to unravel mysteries of the ‘dark’ universe The European Space Agency plans to survey billions of galaxies using the …

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1 year, 5 months ago

India’s largest radio telescope plays vital role in detecting universe’s vibrations

The Hindu

India’s Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope was among the world’s six large telescopes that played a vital role in providing evidence confirming the presence of gravitational waves using pulsar observations, said scientists on Thursday. An international team of astronomers from India, Japan and Europe has published the results from monitoring pulsars, called ‘nature’s best clocks’, by using six of the world’s …

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1 year, 5 months ago

What does the universe sound like? Scientists describe cosmic ‘background hum’

The Hindu

Scientists on Wednesday unveiled evidence that gravitational waves, the ripples in the fabric of space-time predicted by Albert Einstein more than a century ago, are permeating the universe at low frequencies - creating a cosmic background hum. The new findings show that space is awash with these gravitational waves, which oscillate over years or longer and appear to originate primarily …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Scientists have finally 'heard' the chorus of gravitational waves that ripple through the universe

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. They reported Wednesday that they were able to “hear” …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Scientists have finally ‘heard’ the chorus of gravitational waves that ripple through the universe

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Scientists have observed for the first time the faint ripples caused by the motion of black holes that are gently stretching and squeezing everything in the universe. They reported Wednesday that they were able to “hear” what are called low-frequency gravitational waves — changes in the fabric of the universe that are created by huge objects moving …

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1 year, 5 months ago

First hints of 'background' gravitational waves from supermassive black holes

ABC

You may not be able to feel it, but scientists believe the fabric of space-time around you is constantly rippling with waves created by monster black holes circling each other. Key points: Scientists have been hunting for signs of gravitational waves created by supermassive black holes They have observed fast-spinning stars over decades using radio telescopes around the world, looking …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Gravitational Waves, Other Science Headlines With Ari Shapiro : Short Wave : NPR

NPR

Astronomers have some big gravitational wave news Enlarge this image toggle caption NANOGrav collaboration; Aurore Simonet NANOGrav collaboration; Aurore Simonet All Things Considered host Ari Shapiro returns to nerd-out with Regina G. Barber and Geoff Brumfiel on science in the news. They discuss the discovery of new gravitational waves, a robot prototype that draws design inspiration from nature and why …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Supermassive black hum: Scientists discover gravitational wave background that permeates universe

Salon

On Earth, a visible ripple effect occurs when a stone is thrown into the water. Yesterday, scientists announced compelling evidence that they've discovered a massive "hum" of low-frequency gravitational waves rippling through the universe — and they think it's highly likely they're coming from the merging of two supermassive black holes, each of which can range in size from 100,000 …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Scientists have found signs of a new kind of gravitational wave. It's really big

NPR

Scientists have found signs of a new kind of gravitational wave. That landmark discovery showed that gravitational waves truly existed, fulfilling a prediction made by Albert Einstein in 1916 and giving researchers a new way to study exotic phenomena like black holes and neutron stars. But this wouldn't work to find the kind of long-wavelength gravitational waves created by supermassive …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Do dead stars crash with the light of 500 million suns?

The Hindu

Astrophysicists are trying to wrap their heads around another twist in the story of fast radio bursts – mysterious radio frequency emissions that reach us from distant galaxies. Magnetars rotate slowly compared to other neutron stars, so scientists reasoned that it is the objects’ ultra-strong magnetic energy rather than their rotation that probably produces the emission of FRBs. This was …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Italy bets on quietest of places to set up Einstein Telescope

India Today

Italy is proposing a disused mineral mine in a remote corner of Sardinia to house one of the world's most advanced telescopes, hoping that the uncommon stillness of the spot will clinch European Union approval and funds. The Sos Enathos lead and zinc mine, extending 300 metres underground below lush vegetation, has been picked by the Rome government as its …

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1 year, 6 months ago

When Einstein thought he was wrong but Feynman convinced physicists otherwise

The Hindu

Gravitational wave observations are set to expand the frontiers of our knowledge of the cosmos. Einstein’s solution Gravitational waves are clearly the future but the field itself has a humble history. They wrote a paper solving the Einstein equations without using any approximations and claimed that their results showed gravitational waves do not exist. The debate on whether gravitational waves …

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New Ligo India testing facility to enhance gravitational wave research

To map the vibration of the universe, astronomers built a detector the size of the galaxy

Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science 2024

Nobel Prizes, Prime Minister's Science Prizes, unis under pressure, and remembering Mawson

European space agency to establish gravitational wave detector Lisa in space

Mint Explainer: Why black holes are on India’s radar

Three-body solution: These massive blue stars may not be duos, but threesomes instead

How sound is providing new clues about the Universe

Indian group proposes radical new way to settle universe expansion dispute

Third LIGO project will put India on research map

Science for All | Why does observing gravitational waves matter?

First Evidence Of Gravitational Waves At Very Low Frequencies Hum Linked To Cosmic Clocks Pulsars Supermassive Black Hole Binary NANOGrav

Science This Week | Euclid telescope blasts off to study the ‘dark’ universe and more

India’s largest radio telescope plays vital role in detecting universe’s vibrations

What does the universe sound like? Scientists describe cosmic ‘background hum’

Scientists have finally 'heard' the chorus of gravitational waves that ripple through the universe

Scientists have finally ‘heard’ the chorus of gravitational waves that ripple through the universe

First hints of 'background' gravitational waves from supermassive black holes

Gravitational Waves, Other Science Headlines With Ari Shapiro : Short Wave : NPR

Supermassive black hum: Scientists discover gravitational wave background that permeates universe

Scientists have found signs of a new kind of gravitational wave. It's really big

Do dead stars crash with the light of 500 million suns?

Italy bets on quietest of places to set up Einstein Telescope

When Einstein thought he was wrong but Feynman convinced physicists otherwise