Eureka! We didn’t find anything
The IceCube detector finds no evidence of ‘sterile neutrinos’. These elusive particles could fill in some of the gaps in the Standard Model or even provide insight into dark matter.
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Auteur: Gwenhaël de Wasseige
Hearing is the new seeing: gravitational waves at the VUB
In order to celebrate the first observation of Gravitational Waves and its revolutionary implications to the multi-messenger astronomy, the Interuniversity Institute for High Energies IIHE(ULB-VUB) hosted a seminar in English for the general public, entitled “The Discovery of Gravitational Waves: The Sound of Black Holes”.
Lees verder The Universe Talks with a Brand New Voice!
Two weeks ago, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) collaboration announced the first direct observation of gravitational waves. The signal was emitted by two black holes colliding together 1.3 billion years ago forming a single black hole 62 times more massive than our Sun. The collision created gravitational energy ripples that travelled through the Universe. The two multi-kilometer-scale LIGO detectors located in Hanford, Washington, USA and in Livingston, Louisiana, USA, have now detected these ripples in the fabric of spacetime.
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New insights into solar flares
The IceCube team of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel developed a new way to detect neutrino particles created by solar flares. Detecting these neutrinos would be a breakthrough for solar physics.
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