Gravitational wave hunters will get an ultracool new tool in 2023

We have been detecting gravitational waves since 2015, however there may be nonetheless way more to study. 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 about to begin up in 2023, and it may additionally assist in the seek for darkish matter.

Gravitational waves are ripples in space-time created by occasions akin to 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, virtually a century later. Now, we’ve seen greater than 100 gravitational waves, advancing our understanding of black holes and neutron …