Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO)
How NASA Chases and Investigates Bright Cosmic Blips
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Stephen Lesage’s phone started vibrating just after halftime on Oct. 9, 2022, while he was watching a soccer game in…
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Gamma-Ray Bursts: Black Hole Birth Announcements
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Gamma-ray bursts are the brightest, most violent explosions in the universe, but they can be surprisingly tricky to detect. Our…
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A Mesmerizing Model of Monster Black Holes
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Just about every galaxy the size of our Milky Way (or bigger) has a supermassive black hole at its center.…
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Black Holes: Seeing the Invisible!
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Black holes are some of the most bizarre and fascinating objects in the cosmos. Astronomers want to study lots of…
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Be Glad You Don’t Have to Dust in Space!
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Come springtime you might be ready to throw open the windows and break out the feather duster, because that’s a…
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When Dead Stars Collide!
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In October 2017, for the first time, astronomers observed light and gravitational waves from the same source.
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