A permanent Max Planck Independent Research Group under the leadership of Dr. M. Alessandra Papa has been established at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute; ...

Scientists on the hunt for a previously undetected type of gravitational waves believe they are getting close and have refined techniques to use in upcoming observational runs. Researchers from the ...

Five years on from the first discovery of gravitational waves, an international team of scientists, including from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav), are ...

Spin doctors Meg Millhouse, Lucy Strang and Karl Wette are using gravitational-wave detectors to study rotating neutron stars. (Courtesy: OzGrav) The LIGO–Virgo observatories are three kilometre-scale ...

Laser technology as we know it was first realized in 1951 when Charles Townes envisaged the concept of microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation (MASER) on a park bench in Washington ...

These tiny ripples in the fabric of time and space are so faint that even Einstein, the person who first proposed them, believed they would never be detected When you purchase through links on our ...