News tagged with gravitational waves

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Supermassive black holes may frequently roam galaxy centers

A team of astronomy researchers at Florida Institute of Technology and Rochester Institute of Technology in the United States and University of Sussex in the United Kingdom, find that the supermassive black ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 25, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 20 | with audio podcast

Probing the dark side of the universe

Advancing into the next frontier in astrophysics and cosmology depends on our ability to detect the presence of a particular type of wave in space, a primordial gravitational wave. Much like ripples moving ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 20, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (15) | comments 99 | with audio podcast

NASA to Probe the Universe's First Moments

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sophisticated new technologies created by NASA and university scientists are enabling them to build an instrument designed to probe the first moments of the universe's existence.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 29, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Italian physicist honoured by European space truck

Europe's third space freighter will be named after Italian physicist Edoardo Amaldi, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Tuesday.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 16, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 3

How to hunt for exoplanets

A new report launched by the Institute of Physics (IOP) Exoplanets - The search for planets beyond our solar system explains how new technological advances have seen the discovery of more than 400 exoplanets to date, a number ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 02, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Quantum measurement precision approaches Heisenberg limit

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the classical world, scientists can make measurements with a degree of accuracy that is restricted only by technical limitations. At the fundamental level, however, measurement precision ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 26, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (46) | comments 16 | with audio podcast feature

Most precise test yet of Einstein's gravitational redshift

(PhysOrg.com) -- While airplane and rocket experiments have proved that gravity makes clocks tick more slowly - a central prediction of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity - a new experiment in ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 17, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (33) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Astronomers get new tools for gravitational-wave detection

Teamwork between gamma-ray and radio astronomers has produced a breakthrough in finding natural cosmic tools needed to make the first direct detections of the long-elusive gravitational waves predicted by Albert Einstein ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 05, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Fermi large area telescope points the way to new millisecond pulsars

The discovery of seventeen new millisecond pulsars was announced today at the American Astronomical Society Meeting by scientists from the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Space Science Division and a team ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 05, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Black Holes in Star Clusters stir up Time and Space (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Within a decade scientists could be able to detect the merger of tens of pairs of black holes every year, according to a team of astronomers at the University of Bonn’s Argelander-Institut ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (18) | comments 6

Galaxy-Sized Observatory for Gravitational Waves

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers are making plans to create a galaxy-sized observatory to look for gravitational waves. The project is part of a joint effort with astronomers from Australia and Europe, who also ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (14) | comments 14 weblog

Could Exotic Matter Provide an Infinite Source of Energy?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Generally, scientists prefer to avoid the concept of perpetual motion. The idea of a machine that could produce movement that goes on forever, and using that movement to generate an endless ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (35) | comments 63 feature

Listening for Gravitational Echoes of the Universe's Birth

(PhysOrg.com) -- An investigation by a major scientific group has advanced understanding of the early evolution of the universe.

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (24) | comments 66

GEMS mission to explore the polarized universe

An exciting new astrophysics mission led by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., will provide a revolutionary window into the universe. Named the Gravity and Extreme Magnetism Small Explorer ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 04, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 1

Quantum goes massive

(PhysOrg.com) -- An astrophysics experiment in America has demonstrated how fundamental research in one subject area can have a profound effect on work in another as the instruments used for the Laser Interferometer ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jul 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (23) | comments 5