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Can Gravitational Waves be Used for Evil?
Theoretical gravitational waves generated after a black hole collision. Can we surf them? Gravitational waves are a theoretical consequence of a propagating energy disturbance through space-time. They...
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Is the Universe a Holographic Projection?
Luke and Obi-Wan look at a 3D hologram of Leia projected by R2D2 (Star Wars) Could our cosmos be a projection from the edge of the observable Universe? Sounds like a silly question, but scientists are...
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Did Gravitational Waves Ring a Bell in 1987?
Gravitational waves generated by a binary system (MIT) The hunt for gravitational waves continue, but unfortunately all gravitational wave hunters around the world are churning up nothing. Just noise....
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Detecting Gravitational Waves on the Cheap
Forget building gravitational wave detectors costing hundreds of millions of dollars (I’m looking at you, LIGO), make use of the most accurate cosmic timekeepers instead and save a bundle. The North...
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Holographic Universe: Fermilab to Probe Smallest Space-Time Scales
Conceptual design of the Fermilab holometer (Fermilab) During the hunt for the predicted ripples in space-time — known as gravitational waves — physicists stumbled across a rather puzzling phenomenon....
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So… it begins! Astroengine has finally been launched on YouTube, kicking off with a summary of the recent gravitational wave discovery by LIGO. I’m aiming to produce at least one video a week and I’d...
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Beyond Spacetime: Gravitational Waves Might Reveal Extra-Dimensions
NASA (edit by Ian O’Neill) We are well and truly on our way to a new kind of astronomy that will use gravitational waves — and not electromagnetic waves (i.e. light) — to “see” a side of the universe...
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How Gravitational Waves Led Us to Neutron Star Gold
Artist impression of a violent neutron star collision (Dana Berry, SkyWorks Digital, Inc.) One hundred and thirty million years ago in a galaxy 130 million light-years away, two neutron stars met their...
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Gravitational Waves Might Reveal Primordial Black Hole Mergers Just After the...
RUSSELL KIGHTLEY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Imagine the early universe: The first massive stars sparked to life and rapidly consumed their supply of hydrogen. These “metal poor” stars lived hard and died...
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Neutron Star Collision Didn’t Create a Black Hole, It Birthed a Hypermassive...
This artist’s conception portrays two neutron stars at the moment of collision [CfA/Dana Berry] It has only been a couple of years since the first historic detection of gravitational waves, but now...
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Two Stellar Zombie Spinners Are Ripping Up Spacetime
The pair of white dwarf stars are orbiting one another every seven minutes—and future gravitational wave observatories will be able to detect them whirl. White dwarf binaries are among some of the...
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