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LIGO and Virgo Make First Detection of Gravitational Waves Produced By Colliding Neutron Stars University of Michigan physicists contribute to both the gravitational-wave discovery and its optical follow-up

Kip S. Thorne, Winner of 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics, Has U-M Physics Connections Professors of Physics Keith Riles (left) and Gregory Tarlé (right) at the Special Collections Library in Hatcher Graduate Library. Professor Kip Thorne is holding the original document where Galileo recorded his first observations of the moons of Jupiter with his new telescope. Photo credit: Pablo Alvarez (Outreach Librarian and Curator, Special Collections Library at UM)

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U-M Physicists Contribute to Latest LIGO Black Hole Discoveries Above: circle heights and their proportional radii indicate individual black hole masses measured in different LIGO detections of binary black hole mergers. Also shown are black hole masses inferred from X-ray measurements of nearby binary systems containing black holes and an ordinary star.

Physics Department Wins LSA Student Government Department Award of Excellence for the 2016-2017 Academic Year The Physics Department received the most votes along with glowing comments from students praising the Department for the genuine commitment to the students' academic success and well-being. These results were derived from a student survey through the Student Advisory Council to Departmental Affairs (SACDA) of LSA Student Government.

U-M Astrophysicist Katherine Freese Explains the Search for the Universe’s ‘Dark Stars’ In the BBC Future video, Astrophysicist Katherine Freese explains how we might find these stars – and how their discovery might change everything we know about the Universe we live in.

New Dwarf Planet Solar System's 2nd Most Distant University of Michigan Physics Professor David Gerdes with his student research team: Undergraduate Tali Khain, Graduate Student Stephanie Hamilton, and Undergraduate Lynus Zullo

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