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Scientific advances – including the recent discovery of gravitational waves – force us to deal with numbers so extreme they’re virtually inconceivable.
Why gravitational waves from the birth of the universe are a whole different story than the waves LIGO detected.
The hunt to find the source of the gravitational waves detected by LIGO on the sky is only just starting.
Einstein, an accomplished violinist, claimed that, had he not pursued science, he would have been a musician. That’s worth reflecting on, in the wake of last week’s discovery of gravitational waves.
Music has always played a role in our understanding of the universe. Listening to gravitational waves confirms thousands of years of metaphysical investigation.
There’s a good reason you should care about the discovery of gravitational waves, even if you don’t understand the science.
The discovery of gravitational waves has ushered in a new era in astronomy and physics. Where will the next big discovery be made? There’s no reason for it not to be Africa.
The discovery of gravitational waves involved a team of more than 1,000 scientists from across the globe, including Australia. So how does such an international collaboration work?
It’s taken centuries for our understanding of gravity to evolve to where it is today, culminating in the discovery of gravitational waves, as predicted by Albert Einstein a century ago.
The long awaited discovery of gravitational waves has sent ripples through the scientific world. Here top experts respond to the historic announcement.
Sometimes big research news bypasses the usual scientific publishing process. Here’s why that’s not good for scientists or the public.
Here’s a LIGO insider’s description of how he got the news of a phenomenon that had first been theorized 100 years ago.
The detection of gravitational waves is the final confirmation of Einstein’s theory of general relativity, and opens up a new window into the cosmos.
It takes something as stupendous as the merger between two black holes to generate detectable gravitational waves. Here’s how such incredible cosmic objects form.
If you understand how a trampoline works, you’ll be able to understand what gravitational waves are.
It is the physics discovery of the century – even bigger than the Higgs Boson. Here’s how it happened and what it means, by a key member of one of the lead teams
A glimpse inside a truly extraordinary experiment.
Our panel of experts speculate on which of science’s biggest questions could be answered in the coming months.
From a flyby of Pluto to the search for extrasolar planets and gravitational waves, 2015 was a monumental year for space news.
Top contributors
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Emeritus Professor, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery, OzGrav, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Lecturer and ARC Future Fellow, Monash University
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Pro Vice-Chancellor Flagship Initiatives, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Physics, Penn State
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Professor, Monash University
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Professor, Radio Astronomy, University of Sydney
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Reader in Physics, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Gravitational Astrophysics and Cosmology, University of Glasgow
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Cosmologist, University of Tasmania
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South African Research Chair in Physical Cosmology, Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Cape Town
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OzGrav Associate Investigator; Research Fellow in Astrophysics, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Research fellow, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Physics and Mathematics, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor of Mathematical Physics, University of Cape Town