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  1. 🎶 Gravitational-wave detectors can now “autotune” their signals

    Crucial contributions by @mpi_grav researchers: How “off-key” detector calibration can bias signal-based tests of Einstein’s general theory of relativity.

    ℹ️ aei.mpg.de/1445425/gravitation

    For the first time, the collaborations of @LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA have demonstrated a new method to improve the sensitivity of its international detector network.

    The new method called “astrophysical calibration” resembles auto-tune used in music production. It helps to find and correct “off-key” calibrations of the highly precise laser instruments, which can bias the astrophysical interpretation of the measured signals.

    A new publication successfully demonstrates the method using two loud gravitational-wave signals from binary black hole coalescences.

    📄 arxiv.org/abs/2605.11703

    Pic: Carl Knox, OzGrav/Swinburne

    #GravitationalWaves #Astrodon #GW240925 #GW250207

  2. The very first detection of #GravitationalWaves by ground-based observatories took place in 2015. In less than ten years, the antenna of the European Space Agency’s (#ESA) #LISA space mission will detect waves in the millihertz frequency band, which remains unexplored to this day. This will lead to the discovery of new #sources, both gigantic and distant...

    John Baker (L2IT, Toulouse) will give Irapiens a preview of the observations planned by LISA this Thursday: irap.omp.eu/event/listening-to

  3. The very first detection of #GravitationalWaves by ground-based observatories took place in 2015. In less than ten years, the antenna of the European Space Agency’s (#ESA) #LISA space mission will detect waves in the millihertz frequency band, which remains unexplored to this day. This will lead to the discovery of new #sources, both gigantic and distant...

    John Baker (L2IT, Toulouse) will give Irapiens a preview of the observations planned by LISA this Thursday: irap.omp.eu/event/listening-to

  4. The very first detection of #GravitationalWaves by ground-based observatories took place in 2015. In less than ten years, the antenna of the European Space Agency’s (#ESA) #LISA space mission will detect waves in the millihertz frequency band, which remains unexplored to this day. This will lead to the discovery of new #sources, both gigantic and distant...

    John Baker (L2IT, Toulouse) will give Irapiens a preview of the observations planned by LISA this Thursday: irap.omp.eu/event/listening-to

  5. The very first detection of #GravitationalWaves by ground-based observatories took place in 2015. In less than ten years, the antenna of the European Space Agency’s (#ESA) #LISA space mission will detect waves in the millihertz frequency band, which remains unexplored to this day. This will lead to the discovery of new #sources, both gigantic and distant...

    John Baker (L2IT, Toulouse) will give Irapiens a preview of the observations planned by LISA this Thursday: irap.omp.eu/event/listening-to

  6. The very first detection of #GravitationalWaves by ground-based observatories took place in 2015. In less than ten years, the antenna of the European Space Agency’s (#ESA) #LISA space mission will detect waves in the millihertz frequency band, which remains unexplored to this day. This will lead to the discovery of new #sources, both gigantic and distant...

    John Baker (L2IT, Toulouse) will give Irapiens a preview of the observations planned by LISA this Thursday: irap.omp.eu/event/listening-to

  7. Study Proposes Early-Universe Gravitational Waves as a Source of Dark Matter

    📰 Original title: Gravitational waves may have created dark matter in the early universe

    🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
    👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅

    View full AI summary: killbait.com/en/study-proposes

    #astronomy #darkmatter #gravitationalwaves #earlyuniverse

  8. Evidence Suggests a Possible Superkilonova Hidden Within a Supernova

    📰 Original title: Astronomers may have found a strange new kind of cosmic explosion

    🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
    👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅

    View full AI summary: killbait.com/en/evidence-sugge

    #astronomy #superkilonova #gravitationalwaves #neutronstars

  9. Evidence Suggests a Possible Superkilonova Hidden Within a Supernova

    📰 Original title: Astronomers may have found a strange new kind of cosmic explosion

    🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
    👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅

    View full AI summary: killbait.com/en/evidence-sugge

    #astronomy #superkilonova #gravitationalwaves #neutronstars

  10. Evidence Suggests a Possible Superkilonova Hidden Within a Supernova

    📰 Original title: Astronomers may have found a strange new kind of cosmic explosion

    🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
    👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅

    View full AI summary: killbait.com/en/evidence-sugge

    #astronomy #superkilonova #gravitationalwaves #neutronstars

  11. Evidence Suggests a Possible Superkilonova Hidden Within a Supernova

    📰 Original title: Astronomers may have found a strange new kind of cosmic explosion

    🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
    👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅

    View full AI summary: killbait.com/en/evidence-sugge

    #astronomy #superkilonova #gravitationalwaves #neutronstars

  12. New catalog more than doubles the number of gravitational-wave detections made by LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA observatories

    The latest crop of space-time wobbles includes a variety of heavy, fast-spinning, and lopsided colliding black holes.

    ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo2026

    #LIGO #Virgo #KAGRA #GravitationalWaves #gravitation #physics #space #science #news #astrodon #astrophysics #blackholes

  13. Fascinating LUTh seminar! Debarati Chatterjee shows how gravitational waves let us peer inside neutron stars to study ultra-dense matter — connecting nuclear theory, heavy-ion experiments and astrophysics. A must-watch for anyone curious about extreme physics! #GravitationalWaves #NeutronStars #DenseMatter #Astrophysics #NuclearPhysics #MultiMessenger #Science #English
    astrotube.obspm.fr/videos/watc

  14. Physicists Begin Building First-Ever Graviton Detector

    Stevens Institute of Technology physicist Igor Pikovski and colleagues are developing the first experiment designed to capture individual…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Physics #blackhole #gravitationalwaves #graviton #gravity #neutronstar #Science #supermassiveblackhole
    newsbeep.com/us/418644/

  15. Physicists Begin Building First-Ever Graviton Detector

    Stevens Institute of Technology physicist Igor Pikovski and colleagues are developing the first experiment designed to capture individual…
    #NewsBeep #News #Physics #BlackHole #gravitationalwaves #graviton #gravity #neutronstar #Science #supermassiveblackhole #UK #UnitedKingdom
    newsbeep.com/uk/380086/

  16. Physicists Begin Building First-Ever Graviton Detector

    Stevens Institute of Technology physicist Igor Pikovski and colleagues are developing the first experiment designed to capture individual…
    #NewsBeep #News #Physics #Blackhole #CA #Canada #Gravitationalwaves #graviton #gravity #neutronstar #Science #supermassiveblackhole
    newsbeep.com/ca/421179/

  17. Gravitational Waves From Black Holes Indicate That They Had Previously Merged, Producing Record Breaking Results » TwistedSifter

    Shutterstock The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration has been recording gravitational wave observations for a decade now, and in 2024, it…
    #NewsBeep #News #Science #Astronomers #AU #Australia #blackholespin #BlackHoles #Gravitationalwaves #massiveblackholes #singletopic #study #top
    newsbeep.com/au/421852/

  18. 📣 Around 2.2 million euros to open a new window on the Universe

    Miguel Zumalacárregui receives a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council.

    ➡️ aei.mpg.de/1359867/erc-consoli

    #ERCCoG #GravitationalWaves

  19. Today, the international LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration celebrates the successful completion of its 4th observing run (O4), marking another major step forward in the exploration of the gravitational wave universe. The run relied on coordinated observations and analyses by teams across the world.

    ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo2025

    #physics #LIGO #Virgo #KAGRA #gravitationalWaves #science #news

  20. Astronomers solve cosmic mystery surrounding two massive black holes that shouldn’t exist

    Astronomers knew something did not add up when detectors picked up a vast cosmic crash in 2023. The…
    #NewsBeep #News #Physics #astronomy #Blackholes #Cosmology #gravitationalwaves #MagneticFields #research #Science #SpaceNews #UK #UnitedKingdom
    newsbeep.com/uk/258621/

  21. 📣 New selected research highlight ✨

    A clearer view of gravitational-wave signals in pulsar timing arrays

    An international team led by researchers at the @mpi_grav in Hannover, Germany, developed an improved noise model to analyze data from the European Pulsar Timing Array.

    ℹ️ aei.mpg.de/1323827/a-a-clearer

    By addressing known limitations of how the noise contamination is modeled and therefore included in the analysis, the researchers have mitigated a tension between earlier studies of the data and the theoretical predictions.

    According to their improved analysis, published in Nature Communications today, the EPTA data now better agree with a gravitational-wave background from coalescing black hole binaries in circular orbits. Additionally, the inferred background amplitude is in less tension with theoretical expectations.

    📄 nature.com/articles/s41467-025 [Open Access]

    #PTA #PulsarTimingArray #EPTA #BlackHoles #GravitationalWaves

  22. Levitation Breakthrough: Scientists Create Levitating Disk That Requires No External Power

    Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) scientists have achieved a levitation breakthrough by creating a virtually frictionless,…
    #NewsBeep #News #Physics #acousticlevitation #darkmatter #gravitationalwaves #levitation #MagneticLevitation #OIST #OkinawaInstituteofScienceandTechnology #quantumrealm #quantumsensing #Science #sensing #UK #UnitedKingdom
    newsbeep.com/uk/199865/

  23. Levitation Breakthrough: Scientists Create Levitating Disk That Requires No External Power

    Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) scientists have achieved a levitation breakthrough by creating a virtually frictionless,…
    #NewsBeep #News #Physics #acousticlevitation #CA #Canada #darkmatter #Gravitationalwaves #levitation #MagneticLevitation #OIST #OkinawaInstituteofScienceandTechnology #quantumrealm #quantumsensing #Science #sensing
    newsbeep.com/ca/212790/

  24. Did you know you can follow LIGO here @LIGO ?

    They are posting a thread of cake photos that celebrate the 10th anniversary of the first gravitational wave detection! 🎂

    scicomm.xyz/@LIGO/115232038292

    #Science #Space #Astronomy #LIGO #Gravity #GravitationalWaves #GW10Years

  25. A new black hole game (new for me) at our 10 years gravitational waves party at Nikhef.

    #nikhef #gravitationalwaves #science

  26. #Scientists Just Got an Unprecedented Glimpse into the Nature of Reality
    #GravitationalWaves are ripples in #spacetime that are produced by energetic cosmic events, such as #supernovas or mergers between #blackholes. Einstein predicted their existence in 1916 general theory of relativity, though he was doubtful humans could ever develop technologies sensitive enough to detect them. These waves oscillate at tiny distances that are thousands of times smaller than a proton.
    404media.co/scientists-just-go

  27. If you want to read all the fun science in its full glory, this way please:

    📄 “GW250114: Testing Hawking’s Area Law and the Kerr Nature of Black Holes”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 111403, journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/ (Open Access)

    📄 “Black Hole Spectroscopy and Tests of General Relativity with GW250114”, arXiv:2509.08099, arxiv.org/abs/2509.08099

    #GW250114 #10YearsGW #GravitationalWaves #Astrophysics #BlackHoles #GeneralRelativity

  28. Two new papers from our team with the latest Einstein@Home science results 🎉

    Our team has just published two new papers on the arXiv preprint servers, reporting on the latest results from analyzing public @LIGO data from the third observing run (O3).

    📄 “Einstein@Home all-sky "bucket" search for continuous gravitational waves in LIGO O3 public data” (arxiv.org/abs/2508.16423)

    📄 “High-frequency continuous gravitational waves searched in LIGO O3 public data with Einstein@Home” (arxiv.org/abs/2508.20073)

    🙏 We thank our volunteers, without the support of whom this research could not have happened.

    All of our publications and PhD theses related to the project ➡️ einsteinathome.org/de/science/

    #GravitationalWaves #NeutronStars #CitizenScience #DistributedComputing #Astronomy #Astrophysics

  29. 🎬 Great new film 🎞️

    Our @unihannover colleagues have produced a film about quantum optics and gravitational physics research, featuring inspiring pictures from several of our labs.

    🎞️ youtube.com/watch?v=otNPNzYwBpA

    🎞️ inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=otNPNzY

    German and English subtitles are available.

    #QuantumOptics #GravitationalPhysics #Hannover #Research #LISA #GRACE #GRACEFollowOn #GravitationalWaves

  30. 🎉 Happy belated birthday, GW230529!

    Two years and a few days ago, the @LIGO Livingston gravitational-wave detector observed a remarkable gravitational-wave signal.

    ℹ️ aei.mpg.de/1138125/mysterious-

    Detected soon after the beginning of the fourth joint observing run of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaborations, the signal came from the merger of a compact object with 1.3 to 2.1 times the mass of our Sun with another compact object with 2.6 to 4.7 times the solar mass.

    Astronomers believe that the lighter object is a neutron star and the heavier is a lightweight black hole.

    How that lightweight black hole formed is unknown. Its masse falls into the “lower mass gap” between the heaviest neutron stars and the lightest black holes.

    📄 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.

    Image: I. Markin (@unipotsdam), T. Dietrich (@unipotsdam and @mpi_grav) H. Pfeiffer, A. Buonanno (@mpi_grav)

    #GW230529 #GravitationalWaves #MassGap #BlackHole #NeutronStar #Astronomy