MIGA: Gravitational wave hunters will get an ultracool new instrument in 2023

We now have been detecting gravitational waves since 2015, however there’s nonetheless far more to be taught. The Matter-wave Laser Interferometric Gravitation Antenna will use ultracold atoms to identify ripples in space-time at decrease frequencies than ever earlier than

By Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

A brand new sort of gravitational wave hunter is ready to start out up in 2023, and it may additionally assist in the seek for darkish matter.

Gravitational waves are ripples in space-time created by occasions resembling black holes colliding. They had been first predicted by Albert Einstein in 1916 and first detected by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) within the US in 2015, nearly a century later. Now, we have now seen greater than 100 gravitational waves, advancing our understanding of black holes and neutron …