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GRAVITATIONAL WAVES AND ASTRONOMY
If 3I/ATLAS isn’t an alien probe, why is it silent on radio signals but rich in methane from another star system?If 3I/ATLAS isn’t an alien probe, its discovery may be even more important. Scientists detected no radio signals from the interstellar come...
350 years later Newton's Law of Gravity just got put to the ultimate test — here's how it didNewton’s Law of Gravity just survived its biggest cosmic test. Scientists studied nearly 686,000 galaxies spread across 7 billion light-yea...
In 1967, a Cambridge student found a strange signal every 1.3 seconds, and changed astronomy foreverA graduate student's meticulous review of radio telescope data in 1967 led to a groundbreaking discovery. Jocelyn Bell Burnell identified a...
The Hum of the Universe: Scientists Have Detected the Background Buzz of SpacetimeScientists have detected a persistent background hum of gravitational waves. This cosmic hum is a new way to explore the universe. It comes...
A black hole event has revealed a truth physicists long suspected: Einstein and Hawking were rightScientists have confirmed century-old predictions by Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking after observing two black holes colliding about a ...
India played a key role in big neutron bashThe detection of gravitational waves has produced a burst of activity around the world have increased investment in gravitational astronomy.
- LIGO India likely to be commissioned in 2024
Kolkata, Jan 17 (IANS) The LIGO India project is likely to be commissioned in 2024 and its activities would require Indian universities chu...
- LIGO's detection of gravitational waves: Listening to the heavens became a reality (2016 in retrospect)
Kolkata, Dec 24 (IANS) In 2016, science fiction and reality collided when LIGO opened up our sixth sense to understand the universe and set...
- Observatory to detect cosmic gravitational waves to come up in Maharashtra
Aurangabad, Oct 4 (IANS) The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) -- a giant facility to detect cosmic gravitational ...
Einstein's gravitational waves detected for the second timeA LIGO has been set up, to detect the gravitational waves. It is a system of two identical detectors carefully constructed to detect incred...
India, US sign MoU for setting up LIGO observatory in IndiaIndia and the US today signed an MoU for establishing Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in India that will play si...
Government approves building of gravitational wave observatory for Rs 1,200 croreIts approval was expected after the tweet last week by Prime Minister Modi about building an advanced gravitation wave detector in the coun...
UK physicist Stephen Hawking hails gravitational wave discovery"This discovery is the first detection of a black hole binary system and the first observation of black holes merging," Hawking told BBC Ne...
Jayant Narlikar gives analogy to know gravitational wave impactCongratulating the Indian scientists who formed a part of the international team, Naralikar said detection of the gravitational waves is a ...
Gravitational waves: It’s like a new world opening up for us, says Indian scientist Varun BhaleraoVarun’s part in the entire discovery has been to look after the optical waves associated with gravitational waves in an emission.
Gravitational wave detection may allow us to listen to starsWith the advent of gravitational wave astronomy, otherwise invisible phenomena, such as the black hole system captured by LIGO, will be acc...
Gravitational waves: It’s all about extracting wave signal from noise, says scientist Sanjeev Dhurandhar"In 1916, Einstein had thought that detection of these waves was extremely difficult, but technology has improved," said Dhurandhar.
Scientists detect gravitational waves for first timeAn international consortium of physicists, including those from many Indian institutions, detected gravitational waves for the first time i...
Gravitational waves discovery: Indian scientists' role hailedAnil Kakodkar today congratulated the team of Indian scientists who contributed to the research on gravitational waves.
Spacecraft for gravitational waves research ready for liftoffA team from the University of Glasgow's School of Physics and Astronomy played a key role in developing and building the LISA Pathfinder.