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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Groundbreaking Use of Gravitational Wave Detectors to Tackle Major Physics and Astronomy Mystery
The researchers, who were looking for a specific ultra-low-mass form of dark matter, reached a factor 10,000 improvement over previous world-leading results using Laser Interferometer ...