Ten years later, LIGO is a black-hole hunting machine
LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA celebrate the anniversary of the first detection of gravitational waves and announce verification of Stephen Hawking’s black hole area theorem.
LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA celebrate the anniversary of the first detection of gravitational waves and announce verification of Stephen Hawking’s black hole area theorem.
The longtime MIT professor shared a Nobel Prize for his role in developing the LIGO observatory and detecting gravitational waves.
Physicist Salvatore Vitale is looking for new sources of gravitational waves, to reach beyond what we can learn about the universe through light alone.
More stable clocks could measure quantum phenomena, including the presence of dark matter.
Cosmologist and MLK Scholar Morgane König uses gravitational waves to study the universe’s origins, inflation, and present trajectory.
The MIT-led Cosmic Explorer project aims to detect gravitational waves from the earliest universe.
The next run will be the most sensitive search yet for gravitational waves.
Current measurements of black holes are not enough to nail down how the invisible giants form in the universe, researchers say.
Researchers at the Center for Theoretical Physics lead work on testing quantum gravity on a quantum processor.
Professors Arup Chakraborty, Lina Necib, and Ronald Fernando Garcia Ruiz as well as Yuan Cao SM ’16, PhD ’20; Alina Kononov ’14; Elliott H. Lieb ’53; Haocun Yu PhD ’20; and others honored for contributions to physics.
Professor led MIT department for eight years, playing pivotal leadership roles at the Institute and in physics research and community-building.
Faculty, staff, and alumni recognized for outstanding contributions to physics research, education, and policy.
A National Science Foundation-funded team will use artificial intelligence to speed up discoveries in physics, astronomy, and neuroscience.
Mergers between two neutron stars have produced more heavy elements in last 2.5 billion years than mergers between neutron stars and black holes.