…after undergoing upgrades that doubled its sensitivity. With both LIGO and Virgo back online, scientists anticipate that detections of gravitational waves from the farthest reaches of the universe may be…
…Louisiana, and the Virgo detector in Italy. Having only two detectors online did not affect our confidence of it being real, since neutron star binaries spend more than one minute…
…and Space Science and is part of the journal’s Sept. 8 online issue. New sites Pankratius and postdoc Guillaume Rongier, in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, created…
…these “inner cavities”, mouse over the image. Astronomers think that the X-ray cavities were carved out of the surrounding gas by powerful jets of high-energy particles emanating from near a…
…for more information: https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=298155 The event will be streamed live online; follow the link on the webpage. Marlar Lounge (37-252) has been reserved to stream the press conference. 4544 2019-04-10…
…main architect of the Illustris simulation (http://www.illustris-project.org), the most detailed galaxy formation simulation to date containing more than 40,000 galaxies whose properties closely match observational data. This simulation has been…
…10033 kbrauer@mit.edu Personal Website|http://www.mit.edu/~kbrauer DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (declined) Sc.B. Physics (Astrophysics), Brown University, 2017 Cosmology High Performance Computing 10628 primary kbrauer@mit.edu Personal Website http://www.mit.edu/~kbrauer…
…a press briefing at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Hawaii: https://www.ligo.org/detections/GW190425/pr-english.pdf See also https://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-GW190425/index.php image: Aurore Simonnet imagining the scene of this pair of colliding neutron stars. 5241 15923…
…to her home department (EAPS-Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences) for additional information. 617-253-6397 zuber@mit.edu Planetary Geodynamics|http://www-geodyn.mit.edu/zubersite, Faculty Profile (EAPS)|http://eapsweb.mit.edu/people/zuber 4243 primary 617-253-6397 primary zuber@mit.edu Planetary Geodynamics http://www-geodyn.mit.edu/zubersite, Faculty Profile (EAPS)…
…approach has been at the heart of physics’ success for the past 500 years.” For more, visit: http://www.kavlifoundation.org/science-spotlights/kavli-origins-of-math James Cohen 13864 http://www.kavlifoundation.org/science-spotlights/kavli-origins-of-math 2013-07-12 00:00:00 9700 Read Original Article Link http://www.kavlifoundation.org/science-spotlights/kavli-origins-of-math…