Physics Department News
In June 2015, a black hole called V404 Cygni underwent dramatic brightening for about two weeks. An international team of astronomers, including the 神马福利影片, report that the black hole emitted dazzling red flashes lasting just fractions of a second, as it blasted out material that it could not swallow...
The Royal Society has recently awarded Prof Don Pollacco with a Wolfson Merit Award in recognition of his outstanding scientific achievements. The award will help support his research program on the discovery and characterisation of exoplanets (planets around other stars) for the next 5 years...
Physics Hat Trick at Warwick Staff Awards
Congratulations to Ally Caldecote, Rashida Mohamed, Don Pollacco and Pam Thomas who were named as overall winners in three categories at the The winners were announced at a celebratory gala dinner on Friday 11th March.
LIGO discovers gravitational waves
We congratulate the LIGO team on their compelling detection of a gravitational wave signal produced by a pair of coalescing black holes. This represents a remarkable achievement, presenting not only the first detection of a gravitational wave, but also the first detection of a pair of merging black holes.
Dr. Danny Steeghs comments, "A century after Einstein's theory of General Relativity was presented, a long anticipated window on the Universe has now opened. These events also leave visible signatures that we will be chasing up with our new telescope, the Gravitational wave Optical Transient Observer ()."