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  • 35 new gravitational wave observations bring researchers closer to uncovering the secrets of how stars live and die

    A global team of scientists, including researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC), have detected thirty-five new gravitational wave events, including colliding black holes and neutron stars. The new events, detailed in today’s paper, bring the total number of observed events to 90 since the first detection of gravitational waves in 2015. Gravitational waves are […] Read More

  • LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA finds elusive mergers of black holes with neutron stars

    For the first time, researchers have confirmed the detection of a collision between a black hole and a neutron star. In fact, the scientists – including those at the University of British Columbia – detected not one but two such events occurring just ten days apart in January 2020. The extreme events made splashes in […] Read More

  • Prof. Jess McIver receives federal funding to support breakthrough & interdisciplinary research

    UBC Physics & Astronomy researchers David Jones, Jess McIver, Joerg Rottler, and Jeff Young have been awarded the federal New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) 2020 Exploration Stream. This funding, each in the amount of $250K, will support high-risk, high-reward and interdisciplinary research. Their three projects are among the 7 projects awarded at UBC, and […] Read More

  • Dr. Cabero Müller receives 2020 Killam Postdoctoral Fellow Research Prize

    Congratulations to our team member Dr. Miriam Cabero Müller, who is receiving the 2020 Killam Postdoctoral Fellow Research Prize! The Killam Postdoctoral Fellow Research Prize is awarded annually for excellence in research. Established in 2011, the Killam PDF Prize is in memory of Izaak Walton Killam and his wife, Dorothy Johnston Killam, who together created the Killam trusts. […] Read More

  • Scientists detect 39 new gravitational wave events

    (via UBC News) The LIGO-Virgo Collaboration, including UBC Department of Physics & Astronomy researchers, has confirmed 39 new gravitational wave event detections, more than quadrupling the total known gravitational wave events from 11 to 50. The results, published in four papers on arXiv, and soon to appear in Physical Review X and other journals, were […] Read More

Our team in the news

Television

McIver CTV

Watch a CTV clip on the LIGO-Virgo discovery of an intermediate mass black hole featuring UBC Assistant Prof. Jess McIver


Watch a CBC News interview on the LIGO-Virgo discovery of an intermediate mass black hole featuring UBC
Research Associate Dr. Evan Goetz

Watch Assistant Prof. Jess McIver of UBC speak with Global News about the discovery of an intermediate mass black hole by LIGO and Virgo.

Print

  • 35 new gravitational wave observations bring researchers closer to uncovering the secrets of how stars live and die. UBC Science News, November 8, 2021
  • Black holes eat neutron stars for breakfast – and burp out gravitational waves. Inverse, June 30, 2021
  • Scientists detect 39 new gravitational wave events. UBC news release, Oct 29, 2020
  • Des scientifiques de l’UBC aident à détecter la collision de trous noirs la plus massive jamais observée. FR24 News, Sept 6, 2020
  • Astronomers observe collision of 2 black holes — 7 billion years later. Global News, Sept 5, 2020
  • Largest celestial collision ever detected reveals a new kind of black hole. The Globe and Mail, Sept 2, 2020
  • Black holes collide—and UBC researchers helped detect the signal. The Georgia Straight, Sept 2, 2020
  • Discovery of record-breaking black hole collision surprises astronomers. CBC News, Sept 2, 2020; Yahoo News Sept 2, 2020; The Weather Network, Sept 2, 2020
  • UBC researchers help detect the most massive black hole collision ever observed. UBC news release, Sept 2, 2020
  • LIGO and Virgo observe gravitational waves from the heaviest neutron star or lightest black hole ever observed. UBC Faculty of Science news release, June 2020.
  • What the next supernova can teach us, and why astronomers hope it will come from Betelgeuse. Science Borealis, May 2020.
  • Harmonics in gravitational wave signals observed from collision of black holes for the first time. UBC PHAS news article, April 2020.

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  • CityNews 1130: This Week in Science with Kurtis Doering.
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  • Global News Radio: Afternoons with Rob Breakenridge ( 770 CHQR); Afternoons with Jess Brady (980 CFPL); Mornings with Simi (980 CKNW)

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