Ali Lezeik

Tag: space

  • Dark Matter vs Mond, a tug of war.

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    Title: Absence of a fundamental acceleration scale in galaxies Authors: Davi C. Rodrigues, Valerio Marra, Antonino del Popolo, and Zahra Davari First Author’s institution: Federal University of Espírito Santo Status: Published in Nature; closed access A very brief history of Gravity When Vera Rubin made her discovery on galaxy rotations back in the 70’s, she knew she was onto something that…

  • LIGO’s Real Challenge.

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    arXiv Title: The Sensitivity of the Advanced LIGO Detectors at the Beginning of Gravitational Wave Astronomy. Whether you’ve heard about the binary neutron star merger that was discovered last year or not, a new era of astronomy has opened, the multi-messenger astronomy, after scientists at LIGO and VIRGO have been able to detect both gravitational…