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🎉 Congratulations to OzGrav's Dr Kirsten Banks, who has been named a finalist in the 2026 Celestino Eureka Prize for Promoting Understanding of Science! Read more: www.ozgrav.org/awards/ozgra... @eurekaprizes.bsky.social #EurekaPrizes

OzGrav's Dr Kirsten Banks named finalist in the 2026 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes - OzGrav

The Australian Museum (AM) has announced the finalists of the 2026 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes, recognising the outstanding homegrown scientists, innovators and communicators that drive exploratio...

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735 curious minds. 3 hours. Countless conversations about science. 🔭✨ OzGrav had a fantastic time at the Blacktown City Family Science Fun Day 2026, where we joined hundreds of families for a morning of hands-on discovery and exploration. A big thank you to Blacktown City Council for hosting us.

Last week, early career researchers from Australia and Japan came together in Kanazawa for the Joint OzGrav–KAGRA Early Career Researcher School—combining cutting-edge gravitational-wave science with cultural exchange, collaboration and new friendships. Read more: www.ozgrav.org/news/austral...

The Next Generation of Australia–Japan Scientific Collaboration - OzGrav

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Australia–Japan Basic Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation through science, cultural exchange and collaboration. Young gravitational-wave researchers from…

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Congrats to OzGrav Associate Investigator Dr Anais Moller on receiving the Anne Green Prize for Outstanding Research by a Mid-Career Researcher. This well-deserved award celebrates Anais' leadership, innovation & impact in advancing our understanding of the cosmos www.scienceinpublic.com.au/asa2026

Seven million cosmic alerts a night. Ghost galaxies hiding in plain sight, and other prizes. - Science in Public

Honouring Australia’s top astronomers, from Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, and Perth. • Peering into the hearts of the brightest galaxies, Grace Blomfield, ANU• Ghost galaxies: why some galaxies are…

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🕳️ Are all black holes formed the same way? Maybe not. OzGrav Postdoc Dr Sharan Banagiri from Monash University has led a new study that finds merging black holes fall into three distinct families, offering new clues about how these cosmic giants form and evolve. www.ozgrav.org/news/scienti...

Scientists uncover three branches of the black hole family tree - OzGrav

For a decade, gravitational-wave observatories have been detecting collisions between black holes across the Universe. Now, after analysing more than 150 binary black hole mergers, researchers have…

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What exactly happens at the surface of a black hole? It's almost impossible to know - unless you unravel signals from black holes colliding! Amazing work with gravitational waves by Neil Lu & Ling Sun @scienceanu.bsky.social CGA & @ozgrav.bsky.social physics.anu.edu.au/news_events/... @aip.org.au

How fast is the Universe expanding? An international team led by OzGrav PI Dr Kelly Gourdji (CSIRO) and OzGrav CI Prof Adam Deller (Swinburne University) has taken a new step towards answering one of cosmology's biggest questions. 🔗 Read more: www.ozgrav.org/news/new-mea...

New measurement brings us closer to understanding the Universe’s rate of expansion - OzGrav

Researchers closely observing the fiery aftermath of an immense cosmic collision have made a new measurement of the speed at which the Universe is expanding. The international team led by researchers…

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What happens at the edge of a black hole? Using the loudest gravitational-wave signal ever detected, OzGrav researchers Dr Ling Sun and Neil Lu have developed a new way to study the region closest to a black hole's event horizon. Read more: www.ozgrav.org/news/scienti...

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🌟OzGrav Outreach Ambassador superstar, Dr Christine Lee, has written a fascinating article for The Pursuit exploring how exploding stars may be communicating with us through gravitational waves. pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/exp...

Exploding stars are trying to talk to us through gravitational waves

The cataclysmic explosions of dying stars can help us unlock grand mysteries of the universe. Researchers at the University of Melbourne are priming detection tools to make the most of the next one we...

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Congrats to Professor David Blair AO on being recognised in the 2026 King's Birthday Honours for his distinguished service to physics, precision measurement science, gravitational-wave research and scientific education. We are incredibly proud of this recognition. www.ozgrav.org/awards/ozgra...

OzGrav congratulates Professor David Blair AO on King's Birthday Honour - OzGrav

OzGrav is delighted to congratulate Professor David Blair, one of Australia’s pioneering gravitational-wave physicists, on being appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the 2026 King’s ...

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What’s causing some of the Galaxy’s most mysterious repeating radio signals? Check out the new study by OzGrav PhD student Kovi Rose published in Nature Astronomy. Read more: www.ozgrav.org/news/student... @funfactscience.com #OzGrav #Astronomy #SpaceScience

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Congratulations to OzGrav’s Dr Iris de Ruiter on being awarded a prestigious 2026 Gruber Foundation Fellowship in collaboration with the International Astronomical Union. Read more: www.ozgrav.org/awards/ozgra...

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The latest gravitational-wave catalog from the LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA Collaboration has added 161 new detections, bringing the total number of observed signals to 390. Researchers found evidence that black holes may form through multiple different pathways. Read more: www.ozgrav.org/news/scienti...

Scientists find the Universe has multiple ways of manufacturing black holes - OzGrav

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration has today released its latest catalog of gravitational-wave detections. The data analysed for this update were collected by the twin Laser Interferometer Gravi...

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What happens after a star explodes? Researchers from OzGrav have completed one of the most sensitive searches yet for continuous gravitational waves from young supernova remnants. www.ozgrav.org/news/hunting...

Hunting for continuous gravitational waves from supernova remnants - OzGrav

An international team of scientists from the LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA collaborations, including researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav), has completed one...

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How do you check the accuracy of instruments designed to detect ripples in spacetime? By using colliding black holes. OzGrav researchers have demonstrated a new way to use gravitational waves themselves to help calibrate the detectors that observe them. Read more: www.ozgrav.org/news/how-bla...

How black hole mergers are helping scientists calibrate the Universe’s most sensitive instruments - OzGrav

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OzGrav Director Professor Matthew Bailes has officially launched Swinburne’s Virtual Universe ✨ www.ozgrav.org/news/ozgrav-...

OzGrav Director Professor Matthew Bailes launches Swinburne’s Virtual Universe - OzGrav

An awe-inspiring new chapter in science engagement has begun, with Professor Matthew Bailes, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery, officially launching Swinburne V...

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Exclusive: Swinburne’s Virtual Universe! In this piece, OzGrav's Director, Prof Matthew Bailes, shares how this immersive space is transforming the way we explore and communicate astronomy, bringing the Universe to life in ways you can’t experience anywhere else. www.facebook.com/watch/?v=192...

5.7K views · 39 reactions | #EXCLUSIVE: The space adventurers of tomorrow can now get a glimpse of the universe from Earth thanks to a massive new 3D LED screen. It’s the largest screen in the world designed for public education, and the minds behind the virtual universe hope it will inspire the next generation of scientists and astronauts to reach for the stars. | 10 News

#EXCLUSIVE: The space adventurers of tomorrow can now get a glimpse of the universe from Earth thanks to a massive new 3D LED screen. It’s the largest screen in the world designed for public...

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🍻 Canberra - science meets the pub. OzGrav’s Dr Rowina Nathan and Dr Liana Rauf are speaking at the Canberra edition of Pint of Science, bringing gravitational waves, galaxy mapping, and cutting-edge astrophysics to the stage. 📅 Wed 20 May | 6:30pm 🎟️ $15 pintofscience.com.au/event/traver...

Traversing the Universe

Strap yourselves as our astrophysics researchers take you on a journey of the Universe. They’ll explain how gravitational waves can create a map of the Uni…

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You can measure a black hole with echoes. OzGrav PhD student Hugh explains how astronomers use the flickering of light around supermassive black holes to measure their mass from afar. Echoes become rulers. youtube.com/shorts/40IIQ...

We can weigh black holes with their echoes. Watch and find out how! #BlackHoles

You can measure a black hole’s mass by its echoes. You know how you can estimate how far away a storm is by counting the seconds between lightning and thunder? Astronomers use the same basic idea…

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This week, OzGrav researchers from two of our key programs came together at the University of Melbourne for a Collaboration Planning Workshop — bringing different expertise into the same room, sharing tools and approaches, and creating space to spark new projects.

A study led by Anais Möller, Simon Stevenson & Jade Powell has now been featured in Nature Astronomy. The research explores how kilonovae will appear in data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. 🔗 Read the highlight: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How Rubin goes multimessenger - Nature Astronomy

Nature Astronomy - How Rubin goes multimessenger

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We’re excited to share that OzGrav has been featured on NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day 🌌 This stunning visual combines real astrophotography of the Tarantula Nebula with an OzGrav simulation of two black holes in their final “death dance”. 🔗 See the full feature: apod.nasa.gov/apod/fap/ap2...

APOD: 2026 April – Caught in the Web

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.

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