How (and How Not) to Build High-Frequency Gravitational Wave Detectors
Detecting high-frequency gravitational waves is a challenging task. Today’s paper proposes several novel experimental methods with promising sensitivities.
What’s all that racket? Or: what’s behind the Gravitational Wave Background?
In this Astrobite, we look at some of the potential sources of the newly discovered gravitational wave background. Supermassive Black Hole Binary mergers are believed to be the primary culprit, but several other fascinating phenomena could also be contributing.
Drop the Bass: Evidence for a Gravitational Wave Background from a Galaxy-sized Detector
In eight new papers, the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational waves (NANOGrav) presents evidence for a gravitational wave background. In this bite, we provide an overview of their results and their implications
Using Planetary Magnetospheres to Detect Gravitational Waves
Can planetary magnetospheres be used as gravitational wave detectors? Find out in today’s paper!
A New Playing Field for Multi-(Messi)nger Black Holes Kicks
Today’s bite kicks black holes through an accretion disk, come find out if they score!
Juggling black holes in star clusters
Today’s authors explore a new formation channel for forming intermediate mass black holes!