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Oct
Professor Matthew Bailes Awarded 2024 Prime Minister’s Prize for Science
OzGrav is proud to celebrate Professor Matthew Bailes, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery, as a 2024 recipient of the prestigious Prime Minister’s Prize for Sc ...
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Sep
OzGrav’s Dr. Manisha Caleb and Carl Knox Feature on the cover of Nature Astronomy September Issue
We are delighted to celebrate two incredible OzGrav members who have been featured in the September issue of Nature Astronomy. OzGrav’s Creative Technologist and Scientific Visualisation Special ...
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Aug
National Science Week: Virtual Tour of Einstein’s Universe with Professor Matthew Bailes
As part of National Science Week, the ARC Centre of Excellence (OzGrav) and the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing (CAS) at Swinburne University proudly hosted “A Virtual Tour of Einstein’ ...
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Aug
Einstein-First Wins Western Australia Premier’s Science Awards 2024: Science Engagement Initiative of the Year
We are delighted to share that the Einstein-First project, a groundbreaking science education initiative, has been awarded the Science Engagement Initiative of the Year at the 2024 WA Premier’s ...
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Aug
How Continuous Gravitational Waves from Neutron Stars Could Reveal New Physics
Neutron stars are extremely dense objects, second only to black holes. A teaspoon of neutron star matter weighs as much as Mt. Everest. Under such high densities, neutron stars possess exotic physics ...
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Jul
Australian researchers give weight to NASA neutron star study
A neutron star close to Earth is spinning as fast as a blender. Known as a millisecond pulsar, it is rotating at 174 times per second but much of its characteristics have remained a mystery. No ...
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Jun
SLOW-SPINNING RADIO NEUTRON STAR BREAKS ALL THE RULES
Australian scientists from the University of Sydney and Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, have detected what is likely a neutron star spinning slower than any other ever measured. No other ...
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Jan
2023 OzGrav Achievement Awards
A highlight of the 2023 OzGrav Retreat was the presentation of the inaugural OzGrav Achievement Awards, recognising our members’ outstanding contributions and achievements. Below are the winners, ru ...
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Oct
Scientists get closer to solving one of the greatest mysteries in astronomy: fast radio bursts
FEATURE IMAGE: Artists impression of a black hole and neutron star about to collide. Credit: Carl Knox, Swinburne/OzGrav ...
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Jul
2023 OzGrav Winter School
The Winter School is open to OzGrav students and postdocs, and is an opportunity to learn about the instrumentation and astrophysics of gravitational wave science. You will also have the chance to ...
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Jun
Australian astronomers find possible ‘fingerprints’ of gravitational waves
Astronomers using data collected by CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope, Murriyang, have found their strongest evidence yet for low-frequency gravitational waves. For nearly 20 years the Parkes Pulsar Ti ...
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Apr
Research Highlight: How fast do neutron stars move?
An artist’s impression of gravitational waves generated by binary neutron stars. Credits: R. Hurt/Caltech-JPL Young single pulsars are observed to move in the sky at speeds of many hundreds of k ...
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Mar
Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal for Susan Scott
Congratulations to Distinguished Professor Susan Scott (ANU) on being awarded the Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal in 2023. ...
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Dec
Black hole carnivals may produce the signals seen by gravitational-wave detectors
Artist’s impression of a collection of black holes in the core of a star cluster. Credit: ESA/Hubble, N. Bartmann Since 2015, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration have detected about 85 pairs of black ...
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Dec
Star’s fatal encounter with black hole creates rare luminous flash
Astronomers at Swinburne University of Technology have played an important role in the discovery of a rare luminous jet of matter travelling close to the speed of light, created by a supermassive blac ...
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Nov
OzGrav makes waves with $35m to understand the universe
The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) at Swinburne has been awarded a further $35 million in funding to continue their ground-breaking discover ...
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Sep
Congratulations to the 3 successful OzGrav DECRAs!
Excited to announce that three of our OzGrav members (1 x Postdoc and 2 x AIs) were awarded DECRAs today! ...
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Jul
Observing twinkling pulsars to understand mysterious interstellar plasma
Pulsars—rapidly-spinning remnants of stars that flash like a lighthouse—occasionally show extreme variations in brightness. Scientists predict that these short bursts of brightness happen becau ...
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Jul
national science quiz – 7th of august 2022
Have you registered for the National Science Quiz on 7 August yet? Don't miss out on this night of fun! You can attend in-person in Melbourne or stream live via YouTube. ...
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Jun
Astronomers search for X-ray signposts of the elusive continuous gravitational waves
In the last few years, astronomers have achieved an incredible milestone: the detection of gravitational waves, vanishingly weak ripples in the fabric of space and time emanating from some of the m ...
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Jun
New laser breakthrough to help understanding of gravitational waves
Gravitational wave scientists from The University of Western Australia have led the development of a new laser modesensor with unprecedented precision that will be used to probe the interiors of neutr ...
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May
OzGrav Director Prof Matthew Bailes elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
Pioneering astrophysicist and OzGrav Director Professor Matthew Bailes has been recognised for his outstanding contributions to science by being elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. ...
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May
Scientists predict gravitational waves from merging supermassive black holes
At the centre of most galaxies there is a massive black hole. These black holes are very heavy – their mass can be from a million to over a billion times the mass of the Sun and, as such, are approp ...
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May
Australian researchers shape the future of photonic sensing with spin-off company Vai Photonics
In 2021, Australian researchers Lyle Roberts and James Spollard, from The Australian National University (ANU), co-founded Vai Photonics: a spin-off company developing patented photonic sensors for pr ...
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May
Research highlight: Deep Follow-up of GW151226 – an ordinary binary or a low-mass ratio merger?
Now that we've been detecting gravitational waves (GWs), we'd like to better understand the systems that generate GWs. The GWs found so far have been from collisions of celestial bodies, like black ho ...
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May
Research highlight: Do massive-star models from various simulations give the same predictions?
Less than one percent of stars in a galaxy are formed with masses exceeding ten solar masses. Despite their rarity, massive stars are believed to play a crucial role in shaping their surroundings, ...
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May
Research Highlight: Gravitational wave scientists develop new laser mode sensor with unprecedented precision
Lasers support certain structures of light called ‘eigenmodes’. An international collaboration of gravitational wave, metasurface and photonics experts have pioneered a new method to measure th ...
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Apr
Research highlight: The High Time Resolution Universe Pulsar Survey
Double neutron star (DNS) systems in tight orbits are fantastic laboratories to test Einstein's general theory of relativity. The first such DNS system, commonly known as Hulse-Taylor binary pulsar, p ...
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Apr
Research highlight: Graphics processing unit implementation of the F-statistic for continuous gravitational wave searches
One promising source of gravitational waves, not yet detected, is rapidly rotating neutron stars. Neutron stars are hyperdense leftovers from stellar evolution, formed from the core of stars of a cert ...
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Mar
Reseach Highlight: Continuous gravitational waves in the lab
Gravitational-waves are ripples in space-time created by distant astronomical objects and detected by large complex detectors (like LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA). Finding gravitational-wave signals in detec ...
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Mar
Research highlight: Simulating the complicated lives of stars, from birth until death
Scientists from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery and the University of Cologne (Germany) have developed new simulations of stars’ complicated lives, boosting research ...
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Feb
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT: Unexpected changes in the most predictable of stars
Pulsars, a class of neutron stars, are extremely predictable stars. They are formed from the hearts of massive stars that have since collapsed in on themselves, no longer able to burn enough fuel to f ...
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Jan
MEDIA RELEASE: Searching for elusive continuous gravitational waves from the densest objects in the Universe
Take a star similar in size to the Sun, squash it down to a ball about twenty kilometres across and you’d get a neutron star: the densest object in the known Universe. Now set your neutron star s ...
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