PHYSICS NEWS - SKY NIGHTLY

Designing new mirror materials for better gravitational-wave detection

Nov 06, 2020 (SPX)

When his father passed away in the middle of his undergraduate studies, Demos left school to run the family business, Novatech Lighting Systems, which makes han...

UMD astronomers find x-rays lingering years after landmark neutron star collision

Oct 13, 2020 (SPX)

Their analysis provides possible explanations for X-rays that continued to radiate from the collision long after models predicted they would stop. The study als...

Einstein's description of gravity just got much harder to beat

Oct 05, 2020 (SPX)

According to their findings, Einstein's theory just got 500 times harder to beat. Despite its successes, Einstein's robust theory remains mathematically irrecon...

Detection of gravitational wave lensing could be some way off

Oct 05, 2020 (SPX)

A team in the University's School of Physics and Astronomy and the Institute for Gravitational Wave Astronomy has analysed currently available gravitational wav...

LSU develops method to improve gravitational wave detector sensitivity

Sep 29, 2020 (SPX)

In a new paper in Physical Review X, the investigators present a method for removing quantum backaction in a simplified system using a mirror the size of a huma...

China plans to launch Taiji-2 satellite before 2024: chief scientist

Sep 21, 2020 (XNA)

Taiji-1, China's first satellite in the program, was launched in August 2019 and has been performing well in orbit, said Wu, an academician of the Chinese Acade...

Into microgravity with face masks

Sep 18, 2020 (SPX)

Due to a sharp increase in Coronavirus infections in France, the parabolic flights planned for the beginning of September in Bordeaux will now take off from Pad...

Gravity wave insights from internet-beaming balloons

Sep 03, 2020 (SPX)

The ripples, known as gravity waves or buoyancy waves, emerge when blobs of air are forced upward and then pulled down by gravity. Imagine a parcel of air that ...

LIGO: Bang in Detectors Signals Most Massive Gravitational-Wave Source Yet

Sep 02, 2020 (SPX)

Now researchers have detected a signal from what may be the most massive black hole merger yet observed in gravitational waves. The product of the merger is the...

New collaboration between gravitational-wave astronomy and particle physics

Sep 02, 2020 (SPX)

Senior researcher Dr. Justin Vines will perform the balancing act between particle physics at UCLA and gravitational-wave modeling at the AEI. For the next two ...

Tianqin-2 to test key technologies for next-gen gravity satellites

Aug 25, 2020 (XNA)

The Tianqin Project, China's independent space-based gravitational wave detection program, attracted much attention during a recent meeting to discuss the front...

Are we still listening for gravity waves

Aug 24, 2020 (SPX)

Then starts the scramble. A pair of researchers is assigned to the incoming event, analyzing the data to get a preliminary location in the sky whence the ripple...

A stepping stone for measuring quantum gravity

Aug 19, 2020 (SPX)

Already in the preprint stage, the paper that was written by Ryan J. Marshman, Peter F. Barker and Sougato Bose (University College London, UK), Gavin W. Morley...

'Quantum negativity' can power ultra-precise measurements

Aug 03, 2020 (SPX)

The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, Harvard and MIT, have shown that quantum particles can carry an unlimited amount of information about things ...

Tabletop quantum experiment could detect gravitational waves

Jul 02, 2020 (SPX)

In 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Virgo collaborations made the first direct observation of gravitational waves. T...

QinetiQ wins contract with the European Space Agency

Jul 02, 2020 (SPX)

Called the Heat Transfer Host 1, or simply HOST1, the contract includes the development of the experimentation platform and four scientific experiments for stud...

LIGO-Virgo finds mystery object in 'mass gap'

Jun 24, 2020 (SPX)

Now, in a new study from the National Science Foundation's Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Virgo detector in Europe, scientis...

Gravitational wave scientists grapple with the cosmic mystery of GW190814

Jun 24, 2020 (SPX)

Scientists from the LIGO and Virgo Collaboration, which includes researchers from the Institute for Gravitational Wave Astronomy at the University of Birmingham...

Thailand team wins UN access to ESA's hypergravity centrifuge

Jun 10, 2020 (ESA)

The team, composed of five members, including two women scientists, teaching or studying at Mahidol University, wants to investigate the high-protein aquatic pl...

New gravitational-wave model can bring neutron stars into even sharper focus

May 22, 2020 (SPX)

The model shows that vibrations, or oscillations, inside the stars can be directly measured from the gravitational-wave signal alone. This is because neutron st...