News/Events

Please join us Monday, May 8th at 1pm for the next GWAC Center meeting.

The Center for Gravitational Waves and Cosmology needs a good logo! Something we could put on mugs, t-shirts, etc. Something with a "G", "W", "A", and "C". Something perhaps with a telescope or a wave but simple enough so that it can be rendered easily.

You can’t see it, but billions of light years away cosmic flash bulbs are popping and no one knows why.

Hydrogen. Atomic number 1. It is the simplest and lightest element on the periodic table, but don’t be fooled by its humble appearance. With just a single proton and a single electron it is the most abundant element in the universe and has fueled star formation for the past 13 billion years.

No, it isn’t about aliens. While the title of the upcoming documentary “little green men” suggests an extra-terrestrial theme, it actually features life in our own backyard.

When a group of teachers from four West Virginia counties get asked what they did on their summer vacation in fall 2017, they will have an out-of-this-world answer, thanks to a grant received by a research team from  West Virginia University.

For the second time in history, a team of astrophysicists – including  Sean McWilliams at  West Virginia University, has observed gravitational waves – ripples in the fabric of spacetime.

O n the heels of their participation in the historic research that resulted in the detection of gravitational waves, West Virginia Univers ity astrophysicists continue to plow new ground and build upon their work.

WASHINGTON D.C./MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – For the first time, scientists have observed ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves, arriving at the earth from a cataclysmic event in the distant universe. This confirms a major prediction of Albert Einstein’s 1915 general theory of relativity and opens an unprecedented new window onto the cosmos.