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BlackGEM telescopes begin hunt for gravitational-wave sources at La Silla
May 17, 2023 (SPX)
Some cataclysmic events in the Universe, such as the collision of black holes or neutron stars, create gravitational waves, ripples in the structure of time and...
Defying gravity
Apr 21, 2023 (SPX)
This unusual effect contradicts the intuition that heavier objects should sink to the bottom due to gravity and inertia force. This is the case with the phenome...
India approves construction of its own LIGO
Apr 19, 2023 (SPX)
"We've worked very hard over the past few years to bring a LIGO detector to India," says David Reitze, the executive director of the LIGO Laboratory at Caltech....
New findings that map the universe's cosmic growth support Einstein's theory of gravity
Apr 12, 2023 (SPX)
Now, researchers from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration have created a groundbreaking new image that reveals the most detailed map of dark mat...
Overview of orbital mechanics for space-based gravitational wave observatories
Apr 06, 2023 (SPX)
Configuration design and stability control for space-based GWs observatories are one of the key factors to realizing the detection of GWs in space. In a researc...
The search for the missing gravitational signal
Mar 28, 2023 (SPX)
New SISSA research, published in The Astrophysical Journal, proposes using a constellation of three or four space interferometers to map the flat and almost per...
Astronomers observe light bending around an isolated white dwarf
Feb 03, 2023 (SPX)
The international team, led by the University of Cambridge, used data from two telescopes to measure how light from a distant star bent around a white dwarf kno...
RIT scientists reach a milestone in the search for continuous gravitational waves
Jan 27, 2023 (SPX)
While scientists have been detecting gravitational waves caused by the mergers of black holes and/or neutron stars since 2015, they still have yet to find them ...
Underground Italian lab searches for signals of quantum gravity
Dec 20, 2022 (SPX)
An FQXi-funded project carried out at the INFN underground laboratories under the Gran Sasso mountains in Italy, has been searching for signs of radiation produ...
Orbital Assembly announces hosted payload services with variable gravity on Pioneer Space Station
Dec 12, 2022 (SPX)
"The International Space Station has a multi-year backlog of companies and institutions seeking to conduct paid research projects in space and the demand is inc...
Exploring the duality of gravity and gauge theory
Nov 18, 2022 (SPX)
In this Topical Collection, the journal EPJ C presents a collection of articles reviewing the latest advances in the fundamental understanding of this duality a...
Ride into microgravity with a 'spy' amongst numerous experiments
Oct 27, 2022 (SPX)
The research team also investigated how the polarity of cells behaves under microgravity in connection with the development of cancer. The flight also served as...
All expenses paid 'Zero Gravity' flight opportunity by Dr. Chrispy
Oct 07, 2022 (SPX)
Dr. Chrispy is an award-winning aeronautical engineer, music producer, and songwriter who has spent the last 15 years blending his love for both music and space...
How gravity gives astronomers a powerful lens on the universe
Sep 18, 2022 (SPX)
The bending of light by the mass of a star or galaxy is one of the central predictions of general relativity. Although Einstein first predicted the deflection o...
Back in Bordeaux with the A310 ZERO G
Sep 07, 2022 (SPX)
"We're delighted to be returning to the 'old home' of DLR parabolic flights after four campaigns that took place from the airport in Paderborn due to the COVID-...
NASA Scientists Help Probe Dark Energy by Testing Gravity
Aug 26, 2022 (JPL)
The universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, and scientists don't know why. This phenomenon seems to contradict everything researchers understand about gr...
Looking inside a neutron star using gravitational waves
Aug 24, 2022 (SPX)
Taking these movements into account could make a huge difference to our understanding of the data taken by the Advanced LIGO and Virgo instruments, set up to de...
China claims new world record for strongest steady magnetic field
Aug 15, 2022 (SPX)
It broke the previous world record of 45 tesla created in 1999 by a hybrid magnet at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory of the United States. This 45.2...
A step towards quantum gravity
Aug 15, 2022 (SPX)
In a new article in EPJ Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Physics, Donald Salisbury from Austin College in Sherman, USA, explains how Peter Bergmann and A...
Lehigh physicists to probe gravity's secrets at the smallest scales
Aug 08, 2022 (SPX)
While gravity, the mutual attraction that brings objects with mass together, may be the most familiar, there is still much to learn about its fundamental nature...
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