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A fourth gravitational wave has been detected — and we've pinpointed its location better than ever before
Virgo has joined in on the fun<p>Astronomers say they have detected another set of gravitational waves — ripples in the fabric of space and time traveling throughout the Universe. It’s the fourth time this phenomenon has been measured by the scientists at LIGO, or the Laser Interferometer …
Space ScienceNeil deGrasse Tyson says this is the absolute fastest a car can accelerate
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice, and Gary O'Reilly talk about how tires are designed to maximize grip, and how that affects a car's acceleration and …
Neil deGrasse TysonA new gravitational wave detector called Virgo just made a major breakthrough
Less than a year ago, scientists confirmed the existence of gravitational waves, Albert Einstein’s century-old theory that describes “disturbances in …
Space ScienceScientists Detect Ripples From Black Hole Collision
An international group of scientists announced on Wednesday that they had discovered the fourth-ever gravitational wave, an event spurred by the collision of two black holes in outer space. On August 14, three sensitive instruments—located in Washington State, Louisiana, and Italy—detected the …
Space ScienceWhen Two Black Holes Dance, Space Quivers
Albert Einstein didn't like them.<p>To him, black holes were a bit of an embarrassment, as they compromised his dream of a "rational" nature, that is, natural phenomena that we could describe and quantify with the usual methods of science. According to this view, good scientific theories shouldn't …
ScienceDrop the Doughnut: True Nature of Ravenous Supermassive Black Holes Revealed
Some galaxies contain supermassive black holes that are voracious eaters, consuming gas, dust and anything else that strays too close, including …
ScienceAre Gravitational Wave Detections Becoming Normal? - Facts So Romantic
When I heard the news, I emailed my editor with my immediate reaction: “Bummer.”<p>For the fourth time now, humans have directly detected the collision …
Space SciencePhysicists detect waves from a black hole collision for the fourth time
Physicists today reported observing waves in space and time from the collision of two black holes 1.8 billion light years away. It's the fourth time …
SciencePhysical Review Letters - Accepted Paper: GW170814: A three-detector observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole coalescence
On \EventDate at \EventTime, the Advanced Virgo detector and the two Advanced LIGO detectors coherently observed a transient gravitational-wave …
Space ScienceCONFIRMED: A Huge Gravitational Wave Announcement Is About to Happen
What a time to be alive.<p><b>Update 27/09/17:</b> It's happening! We have confirmation that the LIGO team will go ahead with the rumoured announcement today …
Space ScienceGravitational Wave Detector In Italy Saw Wave Pass Through Earth In August
The wave was generated by the merging of two spinning black holes, and took nearly 2 billion years to reach Earth. It is the fourth gravitational wave detection announced so far.
ScienceThe material that obscures supermassive black holes
Cristina Ramos Almeida, researcher at the IAC, and Claudio Ricci, from the Institute of Astronomy of the Universidad Católica de Chile, have …
UniverseWhat to Savor about the Discovery of Gravity Waves - Facts So Romantic
<i>What will come with the ability to detect gravitational waves? Nergis Mavalvala can’t wait to find out.</i>Image by LLacertae / FlickrYou may have once …
PhysicsFast radio bursts firing every second?
New theoretical work indicates at least 1 fast radio burst, or FRB, going off somewhere each second. It contradicts a more speculative study that …
ScienceEarth is being bombarded with high-energy cosmic rays - and they're coming from a galaxy far, far away
High energy cosmic rays whose origins have been a mystery for 50 years come from beyond our galaxy, the Milky Way, scientists have confirmed.<p>The …
UniverseIceCube helps demystify strange radio bursts from deep space
For a decade, astronomers have puzzled over ephemeral but incredibly powerful radio bursts from space.<p>The phenomena, known as fast radio bursts or …
PhysicsNeil deGrasse Tyson on 'Game of Thrones' Dragon Science
We don’t generally look to <i>Game of Thrones</i> for scientific consistency, though it’s noticeable when the series tests physics. One wouldn’t necessarily …
Game of ThronesGame of Thrones: Did Neil deGrasse Tyson Just Solve One of Season 7’s Hottest Mysteries?
Does the zombie dragon breathe ice or fire?<p>Neil deGrasse Tyson’s <i>official</i> job may be as the world’s most recognizable astrophysicist, director of the Hayden Planetarium, and host of the series <i>Star Talk</i>. But in recent years he’s made another name for himself among pop culture junkies as …
Game of Thrones2 Monster Black Holes Spotted at Galaxy's Heart
These two supermassive black holes are separated by less than 1 light-year and together harbor about 40 million times the mass of the sun, …
Space ScienceDid Neil deGrasse Tyson just solve a crucial Game of Thrones mystery?
<b>Warning:</b> This post contains spoilers for season seven of <i>Game of Thrones</i>.Neil deGrasse Tyson is putting his scientific expertise to use solving one of …
Game of ThronesMysterious Deep Space Radio Bursts May Be Suprisingly Common
Since their discovery in 2002, scientists have struggled to understand Fast Radio bursts—high-energy pulses that originate from galaxies billions of …
UniverseMysterious Fast Radio Bursts May Be Occurring Every Second
And we still don't know what they are.<p>Fast radio bursts are quite the ongoing space mystery. We don't know what they are, and only a couple of dozen …
ScienceStudy: Mysterious Bursts From Space Occur Every Second - D-brief
By Alison Klesman | September 21, 2017 1:07 pm<p>The Parkes radio telescope “heard” the first fast radio burst in 2001. Could bursts actually be going …
UniverseFar-off galaxies are firing rare high-energy cosmic rays at us
The highest energy particles in the universe hit Earth very rarely, so it took 10 years of data to pinpoint their origin. They’re coming from …
UniverseHigh-energy cosmic rays are extragalactic visitors from beyond our Milky Way
It's been a mystery of astrophysics for decades — where do the most energetic particles that bombard the Earth come from?<p>Key points box<p>Key …
Australian NewsGravitational waves may oscillate, just like neutrinos
(Phys.org)—Using data from the first-ever gravitational waves detected last year, along with a theoretical analysis, physicists have shown that …
PhysicsAre We About To See A Black Hole?
If there is one thing science is good for, it's going to extremes.<p>A lot of science's history is just one story after another of people figuring out how to do something that, just a few years before, was thought to be impossible.<p>The impossible was heavy on my mind last Wednesday as I found out just …
Space Science'We might not recover': Neil deGrasse Tyson gets emotional and sounds the alarm. All the alarms.
×<p>Tag History<p>NeildeGrasseTyson created by Jen Hayden at 09/20/2017 07:54 AM<br>• ClimateChange NeildeGrasseTyson created by Jen Hayden at 09/20/2017 07:54 …
Liberal ViewNeil deGrasse Tyson Says We Waited Too Long To Act On Climate Change
As the world works to establish rules for limiting the effects industrialization is having on our environment, Neil deGrasse Tyson is suggesting …
ClimateTwo Black Holes Orbiting Each Other Are Surprisingly Close to Earth
The pair of supermassive black holes each weighs more than a million times the mass of our sun.<p>In early 2016, a group of scientists from the LIGO observatory made an incredible announcement: They had detected gravitational waves—ripples in the fabric of spacetime—from the collision of two …
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