‘Missing scientists’ cases may be random; Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb warns what’s actually threatening America’s scientific superiorityUS officials are investigating several scientists' deaths and disappearances as a national security issue. Astrophysicist Avi Loeb states t...
29 Apr, 2026, 01.32 PM IST
Strange ‘space laser’ from early universe detected on Earth: Scientists explain why this signal should not existAstronomers have detected an unusually powerful “space laser” signal from about 8 billion light-years away using the MeerKAT radio telescop...
13 Apr, 2026, 06.14 PM IST
Study finds how new technology enhances gravitational-wave detectionA team of physicists led by Jonathan Richardson of the University of California, Riverside, demonstrated how new optical technology can ext...
16 Feb, 2025, 11.52 AM IST
Gravitational wave background: What we get to know about space, universe?Gravitational wave background findings have provided about details pertaining to space and universe.
29 Jun, 2023, 11.06 PM IST
New source of gravitational waves detected by scientistsGravitational waves are produced when celestial objects collide and the ensuing energy creates ripples in the fabric of space-time which ca...
02 Jul, 2021, 04.09 PM IST
Gravitational waves used to measure age of universeA team of 1,314 scientists from around the world contributed to the detection of gravitational waves from a merging pair of binary neutron ...
09 Jan, 2018, 12.50 PM IST
- Is the Nobel for discovery of gravitational waves premature? (Comment: Special to IANS)
On October 3, 2017, the Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to three American physicists "for decisive contribution to Laser Interferometry...
05 Oct, 2017, 06.02 PM IST
- Physics Nobel goes to astounding discovery of gravitational waves
Stockholm, Oct 3 (IANS) Three American scientists from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) have won the Nobel Pr...
03 Oct, 2017, 06.07 PM IST
Another breakthrough: Scientists detect fourth gravitational waveThe LIGO observatories in the US and the Virgo observatory in Europe have observed the gravitational wave signals from yet another merging ...
28 Sep, 2017, 10.19 AM IST
LIGO detects gravitational waves for third timeThe finding confirms predictions made by the general theory of relativity which German scientist Albert Einstein formulated over 100 years ...
02 Jun, 2017, 01.08 PM IST
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...
16 Jun, 2016, 07.47 PM IST
Gravitational waves detected for second timeThe scientists detected the gravitational waves- ripples through the fabric of the space-time continuum- using the twin LIGO interferometer...
16 Jun, 2016, 12.35 PM IST
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 ...
12 Feb, 2016, 02.29 PM IST
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.
12 Feb, 2016, 01.56 PM IST
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...
12 Feb, 2016, 01.56 PM IST
Why Einstein is making waves again, after a centuryThe physics world is abuzz with discussions about gravitational waves. What are they, and why should you care? ET offers a lowdown.
12 Feb, 2016, 10.21 AM IST
New method may detect Albert Einstein's gravitational wavesA challenge is determining whether any star brightening astronomers detect is from gravitational waves or some other factor.
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