Observing gravitational waves in space with LISA
Earth-based instruments have already observed many dozens of gravitational-wave signals from merging compact objects such as binary systems of black holes and neutron stars. Their future upgrades and third-generation successors will detect many thousands ...
Continuous gravitational waves
Cosmic lighthouses born in supernova explosions When stars at least eight times as massive as our Sun run out of nuclear fuel, their lives end in supernovae. These explosions bring forth new cosmic objects: neutron stars. Because of their strong magnetic ...
Einstein@Home – gravitational waves for everybody
Tens of thousands of computer users world-wide hunt for gravitational waves – by donating idle compute cycles on their personal computers. Whenever they are not using the full computing power, their PCs analyze data from the LIGO detectors to search for ...
