According to Hong-Bo Jin from the National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Beijing, one disadvantage of a triangular array is that when the direction of gravitational-wave ...

In 2015, a piece of equipment at an observatory in the US moved one quintillionth (10-18) of a meter. This tiny movement was ...

Mitman continued by adding that the SXS team's new methods for extracting the waveforms from their simulations have made it possible to see the nonlinear effects of gravitational wave propagation.

In a new Physical Review Letters study, researchers have successfully followed a gravitational wave's complete journey from ...

C. Dalang and T. Baker [arxiv:2310.08991] Testing the nature of gravitational wave propagation using dark sirens and galaxy catalogues, A. Chen, R. Gray and T. Baker [arxiv:2309.03833] Joint ...

By adapting mathematical techniques used in particle physics, researchers in Germany have developed an approach that could ...

"Studying the [gravitational wave] background lets us tune into the echoes of cosmic events across billions of years," team ...

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You might not have noticed, but scientists did: three gravitational wave observatories strategically located around the planet — observatories which do not resemble traditional optical ...