Dark Matter Could Be Hiding in Gravitational Wave Data
The team added new limits to how dark matter could interact with the LIGO detector, boosting hopes for future runs.
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Breakthrough research could achieve the impossible - actually viewing gravity
A recent breakthrough led by Igor Pikovski, a physics professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, may soon allow scientists ...
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Animation Of Black Hole Merger Emitting Gravitational Waves
This black hole merger animation was created using data collected by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors, an observation designated GW190412. Credits: © N. Fischer, H. Pfeiffer, A.
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Dark matter detection closer as LIGO’s potential boosted 10,000 times
Scientists propose a new approach to detect scalar field dark matter using LIGO, the gravitational wave observatory.
Scientists propose a new method to search for dark matter using LIGO
A new study published in Physical Review Letters (PRL) proposes using gravitational wave detectors like LIGO to search for ...
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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‘Impossible’ gravity particle detection within reach as breakthrough method proposed
Scientists propose a groundbreaking method to detect single gravitons, the elusive particles believed to be the building ...
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.
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 ...
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Look! Astronomers Have Never Seen A Pair Of Supermassive Black Holes So Close Together
The two black holes are near the center of a galaxy shaped by the aftermath of a recent merger between two smaller galaxies.
Mercer County library struggling to make ends meet
Directors with the Grove City Community Library say it is more than just a place to find books and other materials, it's a ...
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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 ...