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Dark matter detection closer as LIGO’s potential boosted 10,000 times
Yet one thing remains unchanged — dark matter was a mystery then, and it still is today. However, findings from a new study ...
Thought To Be Impossible: Scientists Propose Groundbreaking Method To Detect Single Gravitons
A quantum sensing experiment now has the potential to identify single gravitons — the particles that make up gravity — which ...
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Scientists discover a way to detect physics’ most wanted particle — the graviton
Large detectors like LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) have proven the existence of these waves, ...
Scientists Might Achieve the Impossible and Actually *See* Gravity
Gravity is the only one of the four fundamental forces whose force carrier, the graviton, has never been directly observed.
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It Happened Here: LIGO installation at Hanford detects gravitational wave
The instrument is so sensitive that the Hanford device was picking up a raven pecking at the frost on the pipes that ...
Future gravitational wave observatories could see the earliest black hole mergers in the universe
In February 2016, scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) confirmed they made the first-ever detection of gravitational waves (GWs). These events occur when ...
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A new way to capture physicists’ most wanted particle — the graviton
A team led by Stevens physics professor Igor Pikovski has proposed a way to detect single gravitons in a quantum sensing ...
Researchers propose way to "see" gravity for the first time
The leading idea is that gravity arises from the exchange of hypothetical "graviton" particles, much like electromagnetism ...
Black hole or neutron star? Gravitational wave 'chirps' can tell us what becomes of dying stars
The current generation of gravitational wave detectors could "hear" supernovas over 65 million light-years away, helping ...
India will have to innovate its way to developed country status
For India to become a knowledge economy, we must reimagine knowledge creation. Ramp up government research funding and get ...