NASA Researchers Probe Tangled Magnetospheres of Merging Neutron Stars
New simulations performed on a NASA supercomputer are providing scientists with the most comprehensive look yet into the…
New fear unlocked: runaway black holes
Last year, astronomers were fascinated by a runaway asteroid passing through our Solar System from somewhere far beyond.…
NASA, Partners Advance LISA Prototype Hardware
Engineers and scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, completed tests this month on a…
Physicists Begin Building First-Ever Graviton Detector
Stevens Institute of Technology physicist Igor Pikovski and colleagues are developing the first experiment designed to capture individual…
Gravitational Waves From Black Holes Indicate That They Had Previously Merged, Producing Record Breaking Results » TwistedSifter
Shutterstock The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration has been recording gravitational wave observations for a decade now, and in 2024, it…
Astronomers may have detected a first-of-its-kind superkilonova
The three stages of a theoretical superkilonova are imagined in this artist’s concept. A rapidly spinning massive star’s…
Astronomers solve cosmic mystery surrounding two massive black holes that shouldn’t exist
Astronomers knew something did not add up when detectors picked up a vast cosmic crash in 2023. The…
Physicists detect rare ‘second-generation’ black holes that prove Einstein right… again
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“What Is the Origin of the Waves?” Scientists Hunt the Source of Mysterious Ultra-Low Frequency Gravitational Signals
Ultra-low frequency nanohertz gravitational waves emanating from pulsars may offer clues to unveiling the fabric of the universe,…
Scientists Have A New Model For The Big Bang Theory That Changes Everything
For decades, scientists have relied on a popular idea referred to as cosmic inflation to explain how the…
Levitation Breakthrough: Scientists Create Levitating Disk That Requires No External Power
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) scientists have achieved a levitation breakthrough by creating a virtually frictionless,…
A ‘Chilling’ Discovery on the Moon, Odd New Images of 3I/ATLAS, and the Physics of Finding Concealed Objects
Here’s a look at several of the top stories we’re covering right now at The Debrief… What One…