News tagged with gravitational wave detector
Goal: developing the best atomic clock in the world
May 29, 2009 |
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They are masters at working with light: the scientists at the newly founded QUEST Institute at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Braunschweig. And they want to work on some of the most exciting questions relating ...
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Researchers could herald a new era in fundamental physics
Feb 03, 2009 |
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Cardiff University researchers who are part of a British-German team searching the depths of space to study gravitational waves, may have stumbled on one of the most important discoveries in physics according to an American ...
'Squeezed' Light May Improve Gravitational Wave Detectors
Jun 05, 2008 |
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A research collaboration has taken steps toward improving the sensitivity of gravitational wave detectors, devices designed to measure distance changes as minute as one-thousandth the diameter of a proton. ...
The world's lowest noise laser: Researchers outsmart quantum physics
Jan 25, 2008 |
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Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics and Leibniz University of Hanover have produced a laser beam of especially high quality. In doing so, they have achieved a new world record ...
New EINSTEIN@HOME effort launched: home computers to search Arecibo data for new pulsars
Mar 24, 2009 |
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Einstein@Home, based at the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee (UWM) and the Albert Einstein Institute (AEI) in Germany, is one of the world's largest public volunteer distributed computing projects. More ...
Scientists aim to unlock gravitational wave mysteries
Oct 19, 2006 |
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Scientists at The Australian National University today joined a consortium of universities launching plans for a new observatory to detect a space phenomenon that has challenged physicists since it was first proposed by Einstein ...
Listening for the cosmic symphony: New SU supercomputer will help scientists listen for black holes
Feb 08, 2008 |
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Scientists hope that a new supercomputer being built by Syracuse University's Department of Physics may help them identify the sound of a celestial black hole. The supercomputer, dubbed SUGAR (SU Gravitational and Relativity ...
Black Holes in Star Clusters stir up Time and Space (w/ Video)
Dec 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Within a decade scientists could be able to detect the merger of tens of pairs of black holes every year, according to a team of astronomers at the University of Bonn’s Argelander-Institut ...
Team simulates first merger of 3 black holes on a supercomputer
Apr 08, 2008 |
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The same team of astrophysicists that cracked the computer code simulating two black holes crashing and merging together has now, for the first time, caused a three-black-hole collision.
Can you hear black holes collide?
Jun 11, 2008 |
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A team of gravitational-wave researchers from four universities has been selected to exhibit at the prestigious Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition.
Listening for Gravitational Echoes of the Universe's Birth
Aug 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An investigation by a major scientific group has advanced understanding of the early evolution of the universe.
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