Neutron star mergers are collisions between neutron stars, the collapsed cores of what were once massive supergiant stars.

These include gravitational waves, which would not be detectable by an existing gravitational wave detector like LIGO, but we might be able to build one that can. Ultimately we’d be acting on ...

Astrophysicist Kip Thorne dared to dream of a machine to find gravitational waves. Ricardo Dearatanha / Los Angeles Times / Getty Images More than a billion years ago, in a galaxy far, far away ...

Magnetic fields influence post-merger frequencies Simulations show strong suppression of oscillations Study uses magnetohydrodynamic models ...

Gravitational waves are generated during catastrophic events, such as the merger of black holes, neutron stars or a combination of both. These mergers release enormous amounts of energy ...

This book describes detection techniques used to search for and analyze gravitational waves (GW). It covers the whole domain of GW science, starting from the theory and ending with the experimental ...

Core package to analyze gravitational-wave data, find signals, and study their parameters. This package was used in the first direct detection of gravitational waves (GW150914), and is used in the ...

One of the most exciting breakthroughs in astronomy over the past decade was the detection of gravitational waves. Since the days of Galileo Galilei, astronomy was about the detection of ...