In contrast, the new “full-loop” interferometer actively brings the wave packets back together, and detects interference through variations in spin population rather than a spatial fringe pattern. The ...

In 2015, a piece of equipment at an observatory in the US moved one quintillionth (10-18) of a meter. This tiny movement was ...

The idea is that the spin-separated states experience different accelerations ... Wisconsin-Madison in the US points out that many other proposals based on matter-wave interferometry use atoms to ...

In the world of black holes, there are generally three size categories: stellar-mass black holes (about five to 50 times the ...

The size and spin of black holes can reveal important ... involving binary black holes detected by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and Virgo Observatory for clues ...

On Thursday, scientists using the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO ... could also help reveal what makes spinning neutron stars called pulsars tick, mapping their ...

Almost all the spacetime ripples that experiments like the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory ... for this stems from how they were spinning as they merged into one, researchers ...

The detector is what we call a Michelson Interferometer (named ... at their surface when the spin rate of the object remains the same. When shown as a wave, continuous gravitational waves from ...