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LIGO's First Detection of Gravitational Waves!
Over 100 years after Einstein proposed his theory of general relativity, we are proud to announce that his final major prediction has been verified! Gravitational waves have officially been detected by LIGO! This is a huge deal and an...
TED Talks
Allan Adams: The discovery that could rewrite physics
On March 17, 2014, a group of physicists announced a thrilling discovery: the “smoking gun” data for the idea of an inflationary universe, a clue to the Big Bang. For non-physicists, what does it mean? TED asked Allan Adams to briefly...
PBS
Using Stars to See Gravitational Waves
Now that gravitational waves are definitely a thing, it's time to think about some of the crazy things we can figure out with them. In some cases we're going to need a gravitational wave observatory - in fact, we've already built one.
SciShow
How Big Are the Mountains on a Neutron Star?
The extreme mass of neutron stars leads to enormous gravitational pulls, resulting in nearly perfect spheres. But those imperfections, or mountains, might be able to help us spot more neutron stars in the future! And back on Venus, more...
PBS
When Quasars When Quasars Collide STJC
In this video, we discuss the reports about the detection of a pair of supermassive black holes orbiting only one light year apart from each other. Studying the dance of these giants should tell us a ton about how black holes grow.
SciShow
Why Gravitational Waves Are a Big Deal
Last week, it was announced that we've detected gravitational waves on Earth. Now, Hank explains what that means for the future and why it's such a huge deal.
SciShow
The First Neutron Star Collision We've Ever Seen
The results are in from the neutron star collision this past August! Astronomers are revealing what they've learned so far, with more pure gold research underway!
SciShow
A New Way to Move Tiny Spacecraft Electrospray Propulsion
Big, fiery rocket launches are just too powerful for something like a toaster-sized CubeSat once it’s in space. Electrospray propulsion is a promising new way to move these little satellites.
SciShow
How We Could Study the First Nanoseconds of the Universe
The oldest light we can see comes from when the universe was less than 400,000 years old, so how can we study those first few moments of history?
Bozeman Science
The Nature of Science
In this video Paul Andersen explains the nature of science. He describes how science is a way of knowing about the natural world. Scientists develop investigations to gather evidence and make explanations about how the natural world...
SciShow
Neutron Star, Meet Black Hole
Scientists have observed a collision of two of the universe's most extreme objects. And a mission to Jupiter's moon Europa makes an important step forward.
The Daily Conversation
Albert Einstein's Gravitational Waves Discovered
New ReviewScientists have confirmed Albert Einstein's 100 year-old theory of gravitational waves, detected using a massive system of instruments called the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO).
Curated Video
How Gravitational Waves May Reveal Secrets of the Big Bang
New ReviewSummary: The information that we know about the universe comes almost exclusively from the analysis of electromagnetic radiation. But there is only so much this light can reveal because there is an inherent barrier. The oldest light that...
Curated Video
Eternal Inflation: A Leading Theory Behind the Multiverse
New ReviewSummary: The big bang model has some problems - homogeneity, flatness, and lack of magnetic monopoles. Cosmic Inflation occurred when the entire universe shortly after its beginning, expanded exponentially fast for a fraction of a...
Curated Video
The gravitational wave background of the universe has been heard for the 1st time
In a historic first, astronomers have detected low-frequency gravitational waves using a galaxy-sized antenna of millisecond pulsars in the Milky Way. For nearly a decade, scientists have been hunting for the gravitational wave...
Curated Video
Merging Black Hole Animation Shows Gravitational Waves Being Released
This black hole merger animation was created using data collected by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors, an observation designated GW190412. Credits: © N. Fischer, H. Pfeiffer, A. Buonanno (Max-Planck-Institut für...
Science ABC
Bose Einstein Condensate Explained in Simple Words
Bose Einstein condensate is considered the fifth state of matter - its obtained when gas particles are cooled to almost absolute zero temperature. To generate the Bose-Einstein condensate, the first step is to obtain a cloud of gas; a...
Curated Video
The Search for Elusive Gravitational Waves
Early in the 20th century Albert Einstein turned physics on its head with his theory of relativity. It explained anomalies observed by astronomers and it made predictions about things that could not be tested. One of these predictions...
Curated Video
Bose Einstein Condensate Explained in Simple Words
Bose Einstein condensate is considered the fifth state of matter - it’s obtained when gas particles are cooled to almost absolute zero temperature. To generate the Bose-Einstein condensate, the first step is to obtain a cloud of gas; a...
Physics Girl
What happens when black holes collide? | EXPERT ANSWERS PHYSICS GIRL QUESTIONS
What happens when black holes collide? What is the speed of gravity? There are so many weird questions related to gravitational waves.
Physics Girl
Gravitational Waves Discovered for the First Time!
On Feb 11, 2016 Scientists at LIGO announced that they had detected gravitational waves for the first time. In the press conference heard round the world, they showed the tell-tale waveforms indicating that huge event in which two black...
Physics Girl
I Visited the First Gravitational Wave Detector! LIGO | STELLAR
We’ve been waiting to verify the existence of Gravitational Waves for over 100 years and I actually got to go to LIGO to see exactly how they proved it! I know, this video is a bit different from most Physics Girl videos. It's part of a...
Physics Girl
Why is the universe flat?
Cosmic inflation is a theory that was proposed in the 1980s by cosmologist Alan Guth to answer some of the most fundamental questions of the origins of our universe. It also solved the Horizon Problem and the Flatness Problem.
Science360
NSF Physics Frontiers Centers The Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
NSF-funded Physics Frontiers Centers (PFCs) are pushing the frontiers of science across the disciplines of physics. The Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP) tackles the big questions in cosmology — dark matter, dark energy and...