🌌 10 years detecting gravitational waves 🌌
On Sept 14, we marked the 10th anniversary of GW150914 with events in Lisbon, Aveiro & Porto. The celebration included a public lecture by Prof. Vítor Cardoso (link below).
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5dg...
#GravitationalWaves
🌌 Mini-Course on Hawking Radiation 🌌
Join us @istecnico.bsky.social for a 2-part hands-on course with Prof. Jeff Steinhauer - an expert on analogue gravity!
📅 15/09 (16:30) & 18/09 (10:30)
📍 Rooms V0.06 & V1.26
🔗 fisica.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/en/ist-physi...
#Physics #CENTRA #HawkingRadiation
🌌 CENTRA Outreach Activity 🌌
Sept 14 marks 10 years since the 1st detection of Gravitational Waves @ligo.org!
Join us at Pavilhão do Conhecimento in Lisbon for demos & a public talk by Prof. Vítor Cardoso. Events also in Aveiro & Porto.
🔗 www.esero.pt/noticias-ese...
Are black holes fuzzy or bald? This question is intimately connected with the greatest puzzle in modern physics: How can general relativity be merged with quantum theory?
Gravitational waves, like those recorded at the Virgo interferometer near Pisa, Italy, are helping scientists test if individual black holes have unique qualities.
www.quantamagazine.org/astrophysici...
🌌 Welcome GW231123 🌌
The most massive black hole binary ever detected by @ligo.org / Virgo / KAGRA! 💥
The remnant #BlackHole has approximately 260 solar masses! CENTRA researchers are studying the origin of such an extreme event! Stay tuned!
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2507.08219
🌌 Black hole in a room 🌌
New work by Oshita, Berti & Cardoso shows how black holes "ring" like instruments in a room—echoes and all. Their study reveals how destabilized modes improve ringdown models. Now in PRL @apsphysics.bsky.social!
🔗 journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
#BlackHoles #Physics
🌌 Gonçalo at ESO 🌌
MSc student Gonçalo Martins (CENTRA/COSTAR) gave a seminar at @ESO in Chile, on how galaxy and SN properties affect measurements of the Hubble constant. Congrats to Gonçalo and their supervisor Ana Mourão!
#CENTRA #Cosmology #HubbleTension #Astrophysics
🌌 CENTRA @ GR24/Amaldi16 in Glasgow 🌌
Our researchers made a strong mark at the world’s top relativity & gravitational waves conference, with many impactful talks.
#GR24 #Amaldi16 #Physics #Science #Scotland
🌌 Técnico Day 2025 🌌
@istecnico.bsky.social celebrated excellence this May 23!
CENTRA’s Ana Mourão, João Álvares & Valentin Boyanov were honoured for their outstanding evaluations as lecturers. 👏
#TecnicoDay #Physics
📸 Ana Mourão receiving the diploma
🔗 tecnico.ulisboa.pt/en/news/camp...
🎉 Congratulations Vítor 🎉
CENTRA group leader Vítor Cardoso was honoured by his hometown of Póvoa de Varzim for his outstanding contributions to our understanding of black holes, gravitational waves, and the cosmos.
#Science #BlackHoles #Astrophysics
🌌 All you wanted to know about black hole spectroscopy 🌌
CENTRA researchers played a central role in a new review of what we know about black hole spectroscopy—the analysis of the sound of black holes!
#BlackHoles #Astrophysics #Science #GravitationalWaves #Physics
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2505.23895
🌌 Environmental dynamics in EMRIs 🌌
A new @physrevlett.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social study from CENTRA researchers shows how matter around black holes responds to inspiralling objects—an important result for LISA @esa.int science!
#Astrophysics #BlackHoles
🔗 journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
🌌 Cosmic Waltz 🌌
New work by CENTRA's Zhen Zhong & Vitor Cardoso @istecnico.bsky.social shows how stars "dance" to ripples in spacetime! A novel method may let us see gravitational waves around supermassive black holes.
#Science #BlackHoles #Physics
🔗 journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
🌌 CENTRA Research News! 🌌
Vitor Cardoso and Adrien Kuntz @istecnico.bsky.social and collaborators explore nonlinear effects in black hole ringdowns. Their findings in PRD @apsphysics.bsky.social confirm: perturbation theory holds strong, even at nonlinear order!
🔗 journals.aps.org/prd/abstract...
🌌 CENTRA Research News! 🌌
Giorgio Laverda @istecnico.bsky.social co-authored a new paper in #JHEP @springernature.com on how late-time phase transitions could link neutrino masses and dark matter— reviving previously excluded scenarios.
#physics #cosmology
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🌌 CENTRA Research News! 🌌
Miguel Duarte, Edgar Gasperín & David Hilditch @istecnico have developed a new asymptotic method to better understand gravitational waves near null infinity.
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2503.17036
#Astrophysics #physics #BlackHoles #cosmology #Science
🌌 CENTRA Outreach Event! 🌌
Ana Mourão joined a vibrant roundtable on The Future of Space during @istecnico Jornadas Espaciais, discussing supernovae, space debris, sustainability, and Portugal’s space scientific landscape! 🚀✨🔭
#Science #physics #SpaceScience #Outreach
🌌 CENTRA in Wolfram Community! 🌌
GRIT PhD student Zhen Zhong, Prof. Vítor Cardoso & collaborators developed a forward ray tracing method to map light from hotspots near black holes—now featured in @WolframResearch Staff Picks!
📎 Wolfram: community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t...
#Science
🌌 Strong gravity across India! 🌌
Vítor Cardoso visited colleagues in Chennai, Bangalore & Pune, delivering the Chandrasekhar Lecture, a colloquium at IUCAA, and speaking at the ICTS-TIFR School on black holes & strong gravity!
#BlackHoles #Astrophysics #Science
🌌 On the topic of eclipses 🌌
On March 29th, a partial solar eclipse was visible across Portugal — and CENTRA researchers were ready with their lenses! 🌒📸
These stunning photographs were captured by Prof. Ana Mourão and João Duarte, showcasing nature's cosmic choreography.
🌌 CENTRA Outreach Event! 🌌
CENTRA recently joined the Técnico Open Day with our exhibit "Lights and Shadows" ☀️🌑🌍 — a journey through the Sun–Earth–Moon system and the science behind eclipses!
🔗 tecnico.ulisboa.pt/en/news/camp...
#ScienceOutreach #Eclipses #Astronomy #STEM
🌌 CENTRA Research News! 🌌
Marco Melis, a visiting PhD student at CENTRA @istecnico.bsky.social co-authored a new study in #PRD @apsphysics.bsky.social on nonlinear spectroscopy of black holes in Einstein-Maxwell-scalar theory.
🔗 journals.aps.org/prd/abstract...
#Astrophysics #Physics
🌌 CENTRA Research News! 🌌
Chen Yuan & Vitor Cardoso from CENTRA @istecnico.bsky.social explore how turbulence in accretion disks may generate gravitational waves! Study in
#PRD @apsphysics.bsky.social.
#Astrophysics #Physics #Science #GravitationalWaves
🔗 journals.aps.org/prd/abstract...
🌌 CENTRA Research News! 🌌
Giorgio Laverda @istecnico co-authored a new study in #JCAP @ioppublishing.bsky.social on gravitational waves from early-universe phase transitions.
#Astrophysics #physics #cosmology #gravitationalwaves #Science
🔗 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
🌌 CENTRA Outreach! 🌌
CENTRA PhD students & Prof. Ana Mourão met with BSc & MSc students to talk about research & PhD life! Events like these inspire future scientists & strengthen our community.
#ScienceCommunication #Physics #PhDLife #Research #CENTRA
🌌 CENTRA Research News! 🌌
Kyriakos Destounis & Vitor Cardoso @istecnico.bsky.social published on #PRD @apsphysics.bsky.social. They study how matter around black holes shifts their oscillation frequencies, impacting gravitational wave observations.
#Physics
🔗 doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.111.064026
🌌 CENTRA Research News! 🌌
Vitor Cardoso @istecnico.bsky.social co-authored a study in #PRD @apsphysics.bsky.social on how dark matter forms spiky structures around black holes, impacting orbits and gravitational waves.
#Astrophysics #Physics #Science #BlackHoles
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journals.aps.org/prd/abstract...
🌌 CENTRA Research News! 🌌
Can black holes form by focusing radiation? A new
#PRD @apsphysics.bsky.social study by Vítor Cardoso
@istecnico.bsky.social explores this question and finds this mechanism is unlikely to create them.
#Astrophysics #Physics #Science
🔗 journals.aps.org/prd/abstract...
🌌 Galaxies Do Not Affect Black Hole Spectroscopy 🌌
When a black hole is disturbed, it "rings" like a bell. A new study in #PRL @apsphysics.bsky.social, shows that this process is not significantly altered when the black hole is in the heart of a galaxy.
🔗 journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...