Gravitational Waves

Gravitational waves are tiny ripples in space created by accelerating masses such as the orbit of neutron stars and black holes. As a gravitational wave passes through space it changes the distance between two points. Researchers at Penn State study gravitational waves theoretically as well as observationally through the LIGO and Virgo observatories.


IGC members who study Gravitational Waves

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Alexander Pace
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Aviral Prakash
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Adrian del Rio Vega
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Bryce Cousins
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B.S. Sathyaprakash
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Cort Posnansky
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Chad Hanna
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Donghui Jeong
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David Radice
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Divya Singh
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Ish Gupta
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James Gurian
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James Kennington
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Kallan Berglund
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Kohta Murase
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Leo Tsukada
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Maitraya Bhattacharyya
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Mukul Bhattacharya
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Pedro Espino
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Prathamesh Joshi
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Becca Ewing
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Rachael Huxford
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Rahul Kashyap
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Sanika Samir Khadkikar
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Shio Sakon
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Surendra Padamata
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Shomik Adhicary
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V. Ashley Villar
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Victoria Niu
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Yun-Jing Huang

News about Gravitational Waves

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2019-06-01: Black Holes, Dark Matter & Quantum Gravity, what’s new in Loop Quantum Gravity
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2019-06-01: LIGO and Virgo observatories detect neutron star smash-ups
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2019-06-16: Two probable black-hole mergers spotted in first weeks after gravitational-wave detector is updated

IGC projects about Gravitational Waves

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Sub-solar Mass Black Holes as a Gravitational Wave Probe of the Hidden Universe
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Discovering Black Holes and Neutron Stars with LIGO
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Scalable CI for Early Warning Gravitational Wave Detections