Primordial black holes (PBHs) are particularly special types of black hole, thought to have been formed from dense pockets of ...

When we think of physics experiments, we tend to envision cavernous rooms filled with things like optical benches, huge coils in vacuum chambers, and rack after rack of amplifiers and data acquisition ...

Last week, four lasers were projected into the sky above the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Paranal site in Chile. The lasers successfully created an "artificial star" that astronomers can use to ...

Focused Laser Differential Interferometry (FLDI) is an innovative, non‐intrusive optical diagnostic tool designed to capture high-resolution density fluctuations within hypersonic flow environments.

Purdue faculty dedicate countless hours to exploring the frontiers of their respective fields, pushing the boundaries of knowledge and contributing to the ever-evolving landscape of academia. To ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has launched the first payload of a mission designed to test optical hardware for detecting gravitational waves. The LISA Pathfinder mission, which blasted off from ...

Antonio García Marín and colleagues from the Albert Einstein Institute and University of Hanover describe the role that laser interferometry will play in the LISA and LISA Pathfinder missions (J. Phys ...

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A lot of what I write is about measurement, not because I’m in love with calipers, but because the cutting edge of physics is at the limit of what we can measure. That means that when you want to ...