The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) has just received a new executive director, say experts from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), in Pasadena, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Cambridge. The two organizations are jointly managing the installation, whi... |
24 August 2011
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The Crab Nebula, housing the Crab Pulsar at its center, is a supernova remnant of a stellar explosion that took place somewhere around 1054. It is located in the Taurus constellation about 6,500 light years away and at the time of the explosion it was allegedly visible on the sky in midday for as much as three weeks,... |
3 June 2008
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There are quite a few large laser interferometers in the world today, including the two LIGO detectors in the US, specially constructed to test the existence of gravitational waves, distortions in the fabric of space-time determined by gravitational interactions between very massive cosmic bodies, such as the merging... |
14 April 2008
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Although black hole mergers are very rare in the universe, especially when these processes involve more than two cosmic bodies of this kind, nothing stops scientists from simulating black hole collisions within an artificial environment such as computer models. Researchers from Rochester Institute of Technology'... |
9 April 2008
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In August 2002, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, or LIGO, became operational and started looking for the elusive gravitational waves predicted by Albert Einstein. It collected a massive amount of data, probably including some gravitational waves, however when scientists were put to the dauntin... |
3 April 2008
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According to new computer simulations, not only rocky moons and planets may have distinctive topographic features such as mountains, but neutron stars may have them as well. The rotational spin around their axis could produce so powerful distortions in the fabric of space-time that they could actually lead to gravita... |
1 April 2008
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So, is it possible to orbit around black holes without falling towards the singularity? Well, against general belief such maneuvers are actually possible. Objects coming in the vicinity of a black hole may enter elliptical orbits, resembling those of the planets in the solar system orbiting the Sun. However, the extr... |
14 February 2008
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80 computers, 320 CPUs of power, 640 Gigabytes of RAM and 96 terabytes of hard disk memory. If that's not music to your years, I don't know what music is. Don't be fooled by the name though, the SUGAR complex will be the new supercomputer complex which will help physicists at the California Institute o... |
11 February 2008
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