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Expansion of Cardiff University’s Hawk high-performance computing (HPC) cluster promises to double the performance of some applications.

8.12.2023 - Next generation gravitational wave detectors capable of revealing processes from the creation of our Universe obtainable by no other means, are being developed by UK astronomers.

We have a lot to learn about black holes and their place in the Universe. Two new gravitational wave detectors should tell us a lot.

Former Wigan Warriors centre Kevin Brown and a group of other junior coaches took on a challenge to raise money for their team to go on a trip abroad.

Cardiff University Scientists have, for the first time, picked up the ripples in space-time caused by the collision of a neutron star and a black hole. Two instances of this violent cosmic event have been detected using the Advanced LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors, details of which have been published today in Astrophysical Journal Letters. Though previous gravitational wave detections have spotted black holes colliding, and neutron stars merging, this is the first time that scientists have detected a collision from one of each. Dr Vivien Raymond, from Cardiff University’s Gravi...