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gravitational waves

gravitational waves

illustration of merging neutron stars

LIGO-Virgo network catches another neutron star collision

LIGO Hanford, WA detector site

First-ever open public alerts now available from LIGO

artistic depiction of binary star merger

LIGO supercomputer upgrade will speed up groundbreaking astrophysics research

Chad Hanna, an assistant professor of physics at Penn State makes rippling waves seem to appear in a photograph of himself

Listening to the Universe

Chad Hanna demonstrates gravitational waves via ripples in water

New gravitational wave hits Earth

In 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) first detected gravitational waves (pictured).

Astronomy talk will trace gravitational waves from crashing black holes

Artist impression of gravitational waves generated by binary neutron stars

Penn State Science-U program to hold gravitational wave summer camp

ripples in space time

Penn State scientists share in Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

Chad Hanna, assistant professor of physics at Penn State

Historic first gravitational wave detection stars at April 28 Friedman Lecture

Chad Hanna

Penn State researcher sees physics work come full circle