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gravitational waves News & Articles

Showing 9 posts that have the tag “gravitational-waves”

Detector engineers are pictured here beginning the hardware upgrades inside the vacuum system of the detector at LIGO Hanford Observatory,

Black Holes Bumping in the Night: LIGO "Hears" Gravitational Waves With Increasing Sensitivity

Technological enhancements to the Nobel Prize-winning detectors include ultra-efficient mirrors and “squeezed” laser light

4 min read

Jonathon Keats founded Intergalactic Omniphonics to build instruments that enable jam sessions with aliens.

Instruments to Make Music With Aliens: Gamma Ray Bells and Gravitational Wave Cellos

Experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats is playing some crazy cosmic vibes

5 min read

An illustration of a gamma-ray burst shows a blue cloud of bright light against a dark background.

LIGO Detects Collision of Neutron Stars

The phenomenon, which produced gravitational waves and was closely followed by a gamma-ray burst, occurred 130 million light-years from Earth

4 min read

Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish, and Kip Thorne, have been awarded the Nobel Physics Prize 2017 for their gravitational wave work.

Nobel Prize Awarded for Detection of Gravity Waves

Three share award for building LIGO and hearing black holes collide

3 min read

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