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Cosmologists a step closer to understanding quantum gravity
Jan 25, 2017 (SPX)
Cosmologists trying to understand how to unite the two pillars of modern science - quantum physics and gravity - have found a new way to make robust predictions...
China to set up gravitational wave telescopes in Tibet
Jan 10, 2017 (XNA)
China is working to set up the world's highest altitude gravitational wave telescopes in Tibet Autonomous Region to detect the faintest echoes resonating from t...
MIT researchers reveal new technique for measuring gravity
Dec 27, 2016 (UPI)
Researchers have found a way to improve atom interferometers, the most common and precise tool for measuring gravity. Atom interferometers measure difference in...
A population of neutron stars can generate gravitational waves continuously
Dec 16, 2016 (SPX)
Professor Sudip Bhattacharyya of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India, and Professor Deepto Chakrabarty (MIT, USA), an adjunct visit...
LISA Pathfinder's pioneering mission continues
Dec 14, 2016 (ESA)
On 7 December, LISA Pathfinder started the extended phase of its mission, an additional six months during which scientists and engineers will push the experimen...
Magnetic mirror could shed new light on gravitational waves
Dec 14, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers have created a new magnetic mirror-based device that could one day help cosmologists discover new details about ripples in space-time known as gravi...
Verlindes new theory of gravity passes first test
Dec 13, 2016 (SPX)
A team led by astronomer Margot Brouwer (Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands) has tested the new theory of theoretical physicist Erik Verlinde (University of Am...
LIGO Resumes Search for Gravitational Waves
Dec 01, 2016 (SPX)
After a series of upgrades, the twin detectors of LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, have turned back on and resumed their search fo...
Atomic beltway could solve problems of cosmic gravity
Nov 16, 2016 (SPX)
When is a traffic jam not a traffic jam? When it's a quantum traffic jam, of course. Only in quantum physics can traffic be standing still and moving at the sam...
First GRACE Follow-On Satellite Completes Construction
Nov 16, 2016 (JPL)
Construction is now complete on the first of the two satellites for NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission, planned for lau...
Airbus completes first GRACE-FO satellite for NASA/JPL
Nov 09, 2016 (SPX)
Airbus Defence and Space, the world's second largest space company, has finished construction of the first of the two GRACE-FO (GRACE = Gravity Recovery and Cli...
Detour via gravitational lens makes distant galaxy visible
Nov 08, 2016 (SPX)
Never before have astrophysicists measured light of such high energy from a celestial object so far away. Around 7 billion years ago, a huge explosion occurred ...
Next step toward a gravitational-wave observatory in space
Oct 27, 2016 (ESA)
ESA has invited European scientists to propose concepts for the third large mission in its science programme, to study the gravitational universe. A spaceborne ...
Moon and Mars on a plane
Sep 28, 2016 (ESA)
Who wouldn't want to run an experiment in lunar or martian gravity? ESA is offering European researchers the chance to test their theories on aircraft flights t...
In Rotating Galaxies normal matter precisely determines acceleration
Sep 22, 2016 (SPX)
A new radial acceleration relation found among spiral and irregular galaxies challenges current understanding - and possibly existence - of dark matter. In the ...
First Gravitational Waves form After 10 Million Years
Sep 07, 2016 (SPX)
In his general theory of relativity, Albert Einstein predicted gravitational waves over a century ago; this year, they were detected directly for the first time...
Did the LIGO gravitational waves originate from primordial black holes
Jul 28, 2016 (SPX)
Binary black holes recently discovered by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration could be primordial entities that formed just after the Big Bang, report Japanese astroph...
Discovery of Gravitational Waves - What Comes Next
Jul 08, 2016 (SPX)
The era of gravitational wave astronomy began a few months ago with the first direct detection of gravitational waves. Now, about 150 scientists from all over t...
Chance Microlensing Events Probe Galaxy Cores
Jul 06, 2016 (SPX)
Some galaxies pump out vast amounts of energy from a very small volume of space, typically not much bigger than our own solar system. The cores of these galaxie...
Gravitational Waves Spotted Again
Jun 19, 2016 (SPX)
On 26 December 2015, scientists from the LIGO and Virgo collaborations received an unexpected Christmas gift when the Advanced LIGO detectors recorded a new gra...
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