Sentences with phrase «wave detectors called»

He began studying whether gravitational waves could provide a useful test of dark energy following the February 2016 announcement that the two sets of gravitational - wave detectors called LIGO (the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory) captured the first confirmed measurement of gravitational waves.

Not exact matches

We know this produces another type of waves called density waves, but we wanted to test if gravitational waves are also produced,» said project co-leader Jamie Bock of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., which developed the BICEP2 detector technology.

By arranging their detectors at the edge of a fusion device, researchers have found that they are able to measure high energy particles kicked out of the plasma by a type of wave that exists in fusion plasmas called an Alfvén wave (named after their discoverer, the Nobel Prize winner Hannes Alfvén).

The detector, called VIRGO, will try to measure the elusive gravity waves which are thought to ripple through the Universe after violent events such as the collapse of a star to form a black hole.

At 7:41 a.m. local Livingston time that morning, the Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope, LIGO Hanford and the Virgo gravitational wave detector in Europe had all detected two incredibly dense objects called neutron stars smashing into each other — an event some astronomers thought they would have to wait years or even decades to see.

He is one of three scientists who won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of ripples in spacetime called gravitational waves.