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CGP physicists in RSPE have celebrated the announcement by LIGO & Virgo & OzGrav (ARC Centre of Excellence) of 4 new binary black hole collisions including the biggest, fastest spinning and furthest merger ever recorded.
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The GRACE Follow-On mission, the successor to the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission, launched into space from Vandenberg Airforce Base in California aboard a Falcon 9 rocket at 5.47am 23 May 2018.
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Prof David McClelland received the International Organisation for Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing Award for Outstanding Achievements in Quantum Experimentation.
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Professor David McClelland has been awarded the prestigious Boas medal, by the Australian Institute of Physics, "for key contributions to one of the greatest achievements in the history of physics – the observation of gravitational waves by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO).
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Astronomers at ANU have created the most comprehensive map of the southern sky that can be viewed online by anyone around the world.
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In this talk, physics pioneer Professor Susan Scott offers some insights, both professional and personal, into one of the greatest and most remarkable journeys of scientific discovery.
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Scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) and around the world have detected for the first time ripples in space and time, known as gravitational waves, from the collision of two very dense stars, called neutron stars, about 130 million light years away.
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We detected a third binary black hole merger with the LIGO gravitational wave detectors. The black holes merged about 3 billion years ago and travelled through earth on 4 January 2017.