Indian astronomers discover 'Alaknanda', an ancient spiral galaxy, using the James Webb Space Telescope, challenging current ...
A physicist has proposed a bold experiment that could allow gravitational waves to be manipulated using laser light. By ...
Physicists are no longer content to simply listen to ripples in spacetime. A new proposal sketches out how an exquisitely ...
A new concept for energy transfer between gravitational waves and light. When massive cosmic objects such as black holes merge or neutron stars crash into one another, they can produce gravitational ...
LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, has been called the most precise ruler in the world for its ability to measure motions more than 10,000 times smaller than the width of a ...
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“WE'RE NOT ASTRONOMERS, YET. We’re still instrument builders. We’ve built a telescope, but we haven’t yet seen a star.” So Warren W. Johnson, Louisiana State University physics professor, summed up ...
In India, scientists are building a new LIGO detector, enhancing the capabilities of the observatory that reported the first observation of gravitational waves. In 2011, three physicists embarked upon ...
The Hanford LIGO facility near Tri-Cities is part of a network that includes a site 1,800 miles away in Louisiana. (Photos by Caltech/MIT/LIGO Lab) KENNEWICK — The LIGO Hanford Observatory near ...
The LIGO Hanford Observatory near Richland is expected to detect 60% more cataclysmic cosmic events — like colliding neutron stars and black holes — thanks to a quantum limit breakthrough. Since the ...