Automatically selected top science news story of the day ( ? )
Follow us with Twitter - Facebook
Next update in ¼ hour

LIGO supercomputer upgrade will speed up groundbreaking astrophysics research

Phys.org - Thu 6 Dec 18

In 2016, an international team of scientists found definitive evidence—tiny ripples in space known as gravitational waves—to support one of the last remaining untested predictions of Einstein's ...

Four New Gravitational Wave Detections Announced, Including Most Massive Event Yet

Discover Magazine - Tue 4 Dec 18

Detecting Gravitational Waves Scientists have announced the detection of four new gravitational waves, bringing the total to 11. First captured by the LIGO detectors in 2015, the new observations ...

New detections of gravitational waves brings the number to 11 – so far

Phys.org - Tue 4 Dec 18

Four new detections of gravitational waves have been announced at the Gravitational Waves Physics and Astronomy Workshop, at the University of Maryland in the United States.

Gravitational waves: biggest black hole merger ever detected revealed

Cosmos Magazine - Mon 3 Dec 18

LIGO data adds four more grav-wave events to the record. Alan Duffy reports.

LIGO found four more pairs of black holes, including the biggest yet

Newscientist - Mon 3 Dec 18

In a reanalysis of all of its data, LIGO spotted gravitational waves from four new pairs of black holes colliding, bringing the total detection count up to 11

Scientists detect biggest known black-hole collision

Phys.org - Mon 3 Dec 18

An international team of scientists have detected ripples in space and time, known as gravitational waves, from the biggest known black-hole collision that formed a new black hole about 80 times ...

Scientists Detect Biggest Known Black-Hole Collision, SpaceDaily - Mon 3 Dec 18

Nobel laureate physicist heads to Perth

Cosmos Magazine - Sun 2 Dec 18

LIGO pioneer to address conference. Brian W. Pulling reports.

Scientists detect the most massive black hole collision yet

FOXNews - Wed 5 Dec 18

Black holes are out there making waves.

Biggest known black hole merger detected

Daily Mail - Tue 4 Dec 18

One of the most cataclysmic events in the universe has been detected by Australian astronomers despite barely making a ripple through earth.

4 Gravitational-Wave Detections Include Largest, Most Distant Black Hole Crash Ever

SPACE.com - Tue 4 Dec 18

Four new gravitational-wave observations mean scientists can start to make broader discoveries about the world around us and the black holes that fill it.

Physicists detected gravitational waves from four new black-hole mergers

Ars Technica - Mon 3 Dec 18

This brings the total number of events detected by LIGO and Virgo to 11.

Ancient black hole collision is the most massive researchers have ever observed

The Verge - Mon 3 Dec 18

Researchers just announced the discovery of the most massive, distant black hole collision ever observed. Excitingly, the huge cosmic crash wasn’t alone. The discovery of three ...

Four new gravitational wave detections announced, including the most massive yet

Astronomy.com - Tue 4 Dec 18

LIGO and Virgo have released their first gravitational-wave event catalog, which lists the new events.

Portsmouth researchers make vital contribution to new gravitational wave discoveries

SpaceDaily - Tue 4 Dec 18

Portsmouth UK (SPX) Dec 04, 2018 Researchers from the University of Portsmouth have made vital contributions to the observations of four new gravitational waves, which were announced this ...

Portsmouth researchers make vital contribution to new gravitational wave discoveries, Eurekalert - Tue 4 Dec 18

Four New Gravitational Wave Detections Announced

SpaceDaily - Tue 4 Dec 18

London, UK (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 Four new gravitational wave detections have been announced including the most massive and distant source ever observed. The results are included in a new paper ...

Four New Gravitational Wave Events from Black Hole Mergers

SpaceDaily - Mon 3 Dec 18

College Park MD (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 Scientists announced four new observations of gravitational waves - ripples in the fabric of spacetime - from the final moments of black hole mergers. The ...

LIGO and Virgo announce four new gravitational-wave detections

ScienceDaily - Mon 3 Dec 18

The LIGO and Virgo collaborations have now confidently detected gravitational waves from a total of 10 stellar-mass binary black hole mergers and one merger of neutron stars, which are the dense, ...

LIGO and Virgo announce four new gravitational-wave detections, Eurekalert - Mon 3 Dec 18