Qi Chu

A visualisation of a binary neutron star merger. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab

May 3, 2019

We’ve detected new gravitational waves, we just don’t know where they come from (yet)

Tara Murphy, University of Sydney; Eric Thrane, Monash University, and Qi Chu, The University of Western Australia

The signal came in on ANZAC Day, ripples in space-time from the merger of two neutron stars an estimated 500-million light years away. But where it happened is still a mystery.

A simulation of the latest binary black hole merger detected by LIGO. Blue indicates weak fields and yellow indicates strong fields. Numerical-relativistic Simulation: S Ossokine, A Buonanno (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics) and the Simulating eXtreme Spacetime project Scientific Visualization: T Dietrich (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics), R Haas (NCSA)

June 1, 2017

A new discovery of gravitational waves has black holes in a spin

Matthew Bailes, Swinburne University of Technology; Eric Thrane, Monash University, and Paul Lasky, Monash University

Scientists have made a third detection of gravitational waves, again caused by the merger of two black holes. But they think there’s something different about the black holes in this case.

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We’ve detected new gravitational waves, we just don’t know where they come from (yet)

A new discovery of gravitational waves has black holes in a spin

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