Signals from rare black hole-neutron star pairs could pinpoint rate at which universe is growing
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LISA Pathfinder outshone its expectations
The new results have laid excellent foundations for ESA’s future LISA mission in 2034
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FREE PREVIEW: All About Space issue 74
Do gravitational waves suggest a bang at the end of the universe? Find out in the latest issue, available now from all good supermarkets and newsagents
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FREE PREVIEW: All About Space issue 71
World-leading astronomers reveal the likelihood that ET has finally phoned home in the latest issue of All About Space – out now!
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Astronomers spot light created by gravitational waves for the first time
Marking the beginning of a new era in astrophysics, scientists have detected ripples in space-time and electromagnetic radiation, or light, from the same event
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Astronomers detect gravitational waves from merging neutron stars for first time
Before now, the ripples in space-time had only been detected from black-hole mergers
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New gravitational wave detection reveals ripples from black hole smash
This is the first three-detector observations made of these waves in the fabric of space-time
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Astronomers discover closest-ever supermassive black hole pairing
The system resides in spiral galaxy NGC 7674, which is located about 400 million light years from Earth
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Gravitational waves mission slated for launch in 2034
ESA and NASA have green lit the LISA mission, striving to uncover the secrets of the ripples in the fabric of space-time
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LIGO detects gravitational waves for the third time
This is the most distant gravitational wave source detected yet
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LISA Pathfinder to be used as ‘comet crumb’ detector
The mission has successfully demonstrated critical technologies needed to build a space-based observatory capable of detecting slight ripples in space-time
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Earth’s Moon could have formed from little moonlets
Our natural satellite could be the last in a series of moons that orbited our planet in the past
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LIGO observatory continues hunt for gravitational waves
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory has turned back on and resumed its search for ripples in the fabric of space and time
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Gravitational waves detected from second pair of colliding black holes
Scientists have observed ripples in the fabric of space-time for the second time
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Hot alien world found around triple star system
The phenomenon has only been documented a few times before
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Hubble spots supermassive stars
Astronomers have identified nine monster stars with masses over 100 times the mass of the Sun in the star cluster R136
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Astronomers clock the spin rate of a supermassive black hole
The rotational rate of one of the most massive black holes in the universe has been measured
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LIGO’s twin black holes may have been born inside a single star
“It’s the cosmic equivalent of a pregnant woman carrying twins inside her belly,” says Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb
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BREAKING: Gravitational waves detected for the very first time
The finding confirms a major prediction of Albert Einstein’s 1915 general theory of relativity and opens an unprecedented new window to the universe
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LISA Pathfinder launch: “We’re looking for violent things!”
We caught up with Paul McNamara, lead scientist of LISA Pathfinder, before the mission’s launch