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Friday, 13 Dec 2019

Exciting results are announced on the Centre for Gravitational Physics' role in improving the sensitivity of the LIGO detectors.

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An artist's impression of how a 40 kilometre gravity wave observatory would look. In the sky above it are some of the black holes it might detect.CREDIT:MATTHEW EVANS / SUPPLIED
Friday, 29 Nov 2019

CGP is participating in an effort to design the largest gravitational wave detector ever built.

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Wednesday, 23 Oct 2019

The 'quantum squeezers' designed at ANU along with other upgrades for the current LIGO detectors have already greatly improved the detectors’ sensing capabilities in the third detection run that resumed in April 2019.

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Wednesday, 14 Aug 2019

On August 14 Gravitational Wave community including ANU Centre for Gravitational Physics announced detection of collision of two massive objects about 900 million light years away.

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Dr Chris Onken (left) and Professor Susan Scott (right). Image credit: ANU
Friday, 03 May 2019

An international team of scientists, including from RSPE's Centre for Gravitational Physics, have detected two stars colliding in space about 500 million years ago.

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Image: LIGO team members (left-to-right: Fabrice Matichard, Sheila Dwyer, Hugh Radkins) install in-vacuum equipment as part of the squeezed-light upgrade. Credit: Nutsinee Kijbunchoo/ANU
Monday, 01 Apr 2019

LIGO and VIRGO are set to resume their hunt for gravitational waves - ripples in space and time - on April 1

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