Starts With A Bang podcast #117 - Gravitational waves and the Universe

Starts With A Bang podcast #117 - Gravitational waves and the Universe

It might seem hard to fathom, but it hasn’t even been ten full years since advanced LIGO, the gravitational wave observatories that brought us our very first successful direct detection, turned on for the very first time. In the time since, it’s been joined by the Virgo and KAGRA detectors, and humanity is currently closing in on 300 confirmed gravitational wave detection events. What was an unconfirmed prediction of Einstein’s General Relativit…

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) continue to transform many fields of science, and this time it is the study of gravitational waves that benefits from a new revolution. Researchers have developed a program capable of designing gravitational wave detectors that are much more powerful than those used today, thus offering new opportunities to explore [...]