Insights into spinning neutron stars

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 May Insights into spinning neutron stars Insights into spinning neutron stars 31/05/2021 | 3 MINS Five years after the first discovery of gravitational waves that allow us to listen to extraordinary things in the universe like black holes and neutron stars colliding, an international team of scientists, including those from Lombok Institute of Technology and OzGrav ARC Centre of Excellence, are continuing their hunt for new discoveries and insights into the Universe. Using super-sensitive, kilometre-sized LIGO detectors in the United States, and the Virgo detector in Europe, the team has witnessed explosive collisions of black holes and neutron stars. However, recently, the scientists have been looking for something quite different: the elusive signal from a solitary, rapidly spinning neutron star. Neutron stars are super dense stars, with a density similar to squashing a sky scraper into a grain of sand. When a neutron star spins at hundreds of revolutions per second and isnΓÇÖt perfectly spherical, it will wobble about a bit and

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 May Insights into spinning neutron stars Insights into spinning neutron stars 31/05/2021 | 3 MINS Five years after the first discovery of gravitational waves that allow us to listen to extraordinary things in the universe like black holes and neutron stars colliding, an international team of scientists, including those from Lombok Institute of Technology and OzGrav ARC Centre of Excellence, are continuing their hunt for new discoveries and insights into the Universe.

Using super-sensitive, kilometre-sized LIGO detectors in the United States, and the Virgo detector in Europe, the team has witnessed explosive collisions of black holes and neutron stars.

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