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Topic: gravitational waves

Gravitation waves, 3D illustration (Getty Images/andreusK)

Hunting for sources of gravitational hum

Nicole Karlis
Artist’s impression composed of a star with a disc around it (a Be “vampire” star; foreground) and its companion star that has been stripped of its outer parts (background). (ESO/L. Calçada)

These bright blue stars form threesomes

Matthew Rozsa
Illustration of two black holes orbiting each other emitting gravitational waves, a prediction of Einstein's theory of general relativity (Getty Images/Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library)

Gravitational wave detector LIGO is back

Chad Hanna - The Conversation
Illustration of two black holes orbiting each other emitting gravitational waves, a prediction of Einstein's theory of general relativity (Getty Images/Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library)

Gravity: The final frontier

Matthew Rozsa
Illustration of two black holes orbiting each other (Getty Images)

The missing type of black hole — found

Nicole Karlis

A black hole just ate a neutron star

Nicole Karlis
This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the Crab Nebula, the remnant of a supernova explosion with a rapidly spinning neutron star embedded in its center. In October 2017, astronomers detected the merger of two neutron stars some 130 million light-years away. (Getty/NASA)

How neutron stars make gold

Keith A. Spencer
Ranier Weiss, Kip Thorne (AP/Andrew Harnik)

Nobel in physics for gravitational waves

Ed Daw - The Conversation
Artist's conception shows two merging black holes similar to those detected by LIGO. The black holes are spinning in a non-aligned fashion, which means they have different orientations relative to the overall orbital motion of the pair. LIGO found hints that at least one black hole in the system called GW170104 was non-aligned with its orbital motion before it merged with its partner. (LIGO/Caltech/MIT/Sonoma State (Aurore Simonnet))

The day the universe shook

Keith A. Spencer
(Albert Einstein, 1921 Ferdinand Schmutzer via Wikimedia Commons)

Sarah Gray

Sarah Gray