“Afterglow sheds light on the nature, origin of neutron star collisions”
“The final chapter of the historic detection of the powerful merger of two neutron stars in 2017 officially has been written. After the extremely...
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“Remember that meteor that lit up Chicago’s night sky two years ago? Scientists are searching for it at the bottom of Lake Michigan.”
“The morning after the Lake Michigan strike, Hammergren and Shane Larson (now an associate professor of astrophysics at Northwestern University, then a researcher at...
“Astronomers probably just saw a black hole swallow a dead star”
“Some 900 million years ago, a black hole released a terrible belch that echoed through the cosmos. On August 14, the resulting ripples in the...
SAGUARO: Using Arizona Telescopes to Observe the Most Dramatic Collisions in Space
Throughout the world, new developments are being made in the field of gravitational wave astrophysics, with groups of scientists utilizing new technologies to reveal...
20 Years of Chandra X-ray Observatory
2019 marks 20 years of superb performance by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The CXC is planning a number of events and products for the...
Northwestern Leads Effort to Detect New Types of Cosmic Events
“A team of physicists and astronomers from Northwestern University is poised to lead gravitational-wave astronomy into its next evolution. The W. M. Keck Foundation...
“Astronomers uncover first polarized radio signals from gamma-ray burst”
“An international team of astronomers has captured the first-ever polarized radio waves from a distant cosmic explosion. This explosive event (known as gamma-ray burst...
Most-detailed Simulations of Black Hole Solve Longstanding Mystery
“An international team has constructed the most detailed, highest resolution simulation of a black hole to date. The simulation proves theoretical predictions about the...
What Next for Gravitational Wave Detection?
Researchers are using gravitational waves to better understand black holes. LIGO’s detectors are sensitive to stellar mass black holes up to 100 times the...
The Challenges and Rewards of Studying Radio Pulsars: a CIERA Interdisciplinary Colloquium by Scott Ransom
Radio pulsars are nature’s near-perfect celestial clocks, and have repeatedly proven themselves to be extraordinary tool for astrophysicists. They have probed the most...
Erik Curiel on Inconsistent Definitions of a Black Hole
Black holes have become a central object for study in numerous fields of physics far beyond the field of classical general relativity. However, even...
LIGO on Lookout for 8 Sources of Gravitational Waves
“Seekers of gravitational waves are on a cosmic scavenger hunt. Since the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory turned on in 2015, physicists have caught...