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  • The most massive black hole merger detected

    An international team of researchers, including scientists in the UBC LIGO group, has detected a signal from the most massive black hole merger yet observed. The discovery, outlined in papers published today in Physical Review Letters and The Astrophysical Journal, raises a slew of new questions about the nature of black-hole formation, and upends previously […] Read More

  • Discovery of the heaviest neutron star, or lightest black hole, ever observed

    An international team of astrophysicists, including researchers at UBC, have detected the ‘extremely loud’ merger of a black hole with a mystery compact object—the most asymmetric gravitational-wave source yet observed. GW190814, the merger of a heavy black hole with an unidentified compact object about nine times smaller, was reported today in Astrophysical Journal Letters. When […] Read More

  • UBC researchers visit LIGO Livingston

    UBC researchers Jess McIver, Evan Goetz, and student Katie Rink visited the LIGO-Livingston detector in Livingston, Louisiana for the LIGO Detector Characterization meeting and noise sprint in January 2020.   Read More

  • The gravitational radiation is translated to colors around the black holes. The colors transition from blue, representing weak radiation, to red, representing strong radiation.

    Glimpsing harmonics in gravitational waves

    Astrophysicists, including a team at UBC, have observed gravitational waves from the collision of two black holes with distinctly different masses, dubbed GW190412. This discovery gives us a glimpse of subtle harmonics in gravitational wave signals for the first time. These harmonics not only allow improved tests of Einstein’s theory of general relativity, they also […] Read More

  • About the LIGO group at UBC

UBC is now part of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration.

Senior LSC members at UBC include:

  • Jess McIver (UBC Physics & Astronomy)
  • Evan Goetz  (UBC Physics & Astronomy)
  • Curtis Berlinguette (UBC Chemistry)
  • Minkyun Noh (UBC Mechanical Engineering)
  • Joerg Rottler (UBC Physics & Astronomy)
  • Jeff Young (UBC Physics & Astronomy)
  • Ke Zou (UBC Physics & Astronomy)
Updates to come soon!

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