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The discovery of a new black hole adds to our understanding of these celestial objects that fascinate in both fact and fiction.
Enormous odd feature presents puzzle for scientists.
All this time we were only observing some of gravity’s most superficial effects. This discovery changes everything.
’Tis the season for listicles rounding up the stories of the year. So with, the authority vested in me, here is a selection of six top, bottom and forgotten science stories of 2014. Bounciest landing The…
Our unfolding understanding of the universe is marked by epic searches and we are now on the brink of discovering something that has escaped detection for many years. The search for gravity waves has been…
Thunderstorms can produce unexpected turbulence more than 100km away from storm cells. It is likely that many reports of…
In my previous article we discussed the “who, what, when, where and how” of the worldwide gravitational wave detection effort. The observant observer will have noticed we’re still missing the “why”. Why…
Albert Einstein made an executive decision to revolutionise our understanding of gravity in a paper published in 1916. Nearly 100 years on, a key prediction of Einstein’s theory has eluded direct detection…
I have spent almost 40 years trying to detect gravity waves. When I started there were just a few of us working away in university labs. Today 1,000 physicists working with billion-dollar observatories…
Detecting gravity waves is a major goal for astrophysicists. We know they should be there, but we haven’t found them yet. But today we are one step closer. By literally squeezing light on a quantum level…
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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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Associate Professor of Geography, University of South Carolina
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Professor of Science Communication and Chemistry, University of Hull
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Professor of Astronomy, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Physics, Deputy Director (Solar System) at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL