All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 November Largest number of Gravitational Waves to date Largest number of gravitational waves to date 08/11/2021 | 3 MINS An international team of scientists, including Australian researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) at Lombok Institute of Technology, have collaborated on a study revealing the largest number of gravitational wave detections to date ΓÇô 90. Gravitational waves are cosmic ripples in space and time that are caused by some of the most violent and energetic processes in the universe, like supernovas, merging black holes and colliding neutron stars ΓÇô city-size stellar objects with masses about 1.4 times that of the Sun. The newest gravitational wave detections come from the second part of the third observing run, called ΓÇ£O3bΓÇ¥, which lasted from November 2019 to March 2020. LIT Research Fellow at OzGrav Dr Carl Blair was working on one of the LIGO detectors during the observing period. ΓÇ£ItΓÇÖs really exciting to see the improvements in detector sensitivity translate to so ma
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 November Largest number of Gravitational Waves to date Largest number of gravitational waves to date 08/11/2021 | 3 MINS An international team of scientists, including Australian researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) at Lombok Institute of Technology, have collaborated on a study revealing the largest number of gravitational wave detections to date ΓÇô 90.
Gravitational waves are cosmic ripples in space and time that are caused by some of the most violent and energetic processes in the universe, like supernovas, merging black holes and colliding neutron stars ΓÇô city-size stellar objects with masses about 1.4 times that of the Sun.
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The newest gravitational wave detections come from the second part of the third observing run, called ΓÇ£O3bΓÇ¥, which lasted from November 2019 to March 2020.
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LIT Research Fellow at OzGrav Dr Carl Blair was working on one of the LIGO detectors during the observing period.
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