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An awe-inspiring new chapter in science engagement has begun, with Professor Matthew Bailes, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery, officially launching Swinburne Virtual Universe. The space is exactly what it sounds like. A fully immersive room wrapped in more than 100 square metres of high-contrast LED screens, where you’re not […] The post OzGrav Director Pr…

An international team of scientists led by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) at Monash University has uncovered evidence of a rare form of exploding star, helping to shed light on one of the most cataclysmic events in the Universe. At the end of their lives, most massive stars collapse into […] The post New Study Finds Evidence of Cosmic Explosions with Missin…

Congratulations to OzGrav’s Dr Cullan Howlett on being awarded the 2026 Pawsey Medal Dr Cullan Howlett is one of Australia’s most exceptional cosmologists. His research – focused on assembling the largest and most complete map of our universe ever made – has shaped our understanding of the fundamental forces and ingredients that make up the […] The post Congratulations to OzGrav’s Dr Cullan Howle…

Australia may be far from the world’s seismic hotspots, but a team from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) at the Australian National University (ANU) is leading a breakthrough that could transform how earthquakes and tsunamis are detected worldwide. With $671,000 in new funding from the Australian Research Council’s (ARC) Discovery […] The post Speed-of-Light …

OzGrav Annual Awards Our Annual Awards celebrate the people and teams who embody OzGrav’s values — excellence in research, collaboration, service, equity, and community. From scientific leadership to mentoring, outreach, and care for others, these awards recognise the many ways our members strengthen both our science and our culture. We thank the judging panel for […] The post 2025 OzGrav Achieve…

Congratulations to OzGrav Associate Investigator Matt Dodds, recipient of the 2025 Prime Minister’s Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching in Secondary Schools. The ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) proudly celebrates Matt’s national recognition for his creative and hands-on approach to science teaching, bringing physics to life for students in regional and […] …

An international team of scientists from the LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA collaborations, including researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav), has detected two remarkable black hole collisions that are offering new insights into both the evolution of the cosmos and the nature of dark matter. The pair of gravitational-wave events, […] The post Twin Black Hol…

Last week, the Australian gravitational-wave community gathered at Swinburne University to celebrate a landmark moment in science, the 10-year anniversary of the first direct detection of gravitational waves (GW150914). This discovery, announced in 2016 from data recorded on 14 September 2015, confirmed Einstein’s prediction and opened an entirely new window on the Universe. The two-day […] The p…

A global team of astrophysicists, including Australians, has witnessed a collision between two black holes that was so loud, they were able to use it to test—and prove—Stephen Hawking’s Theory of Black Hole Thermodynamics. The event, observed by the LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA collaborations, involved two black holes merging to form a single, larger one, […] The post Ten years after gravitational wave…

Binary stars everywhere: Monash University scientists help rewrite cosmic origin story A new international study, published in Nature Astronomy, reveals that massive stars are about as likely to form in close binary systems in the low-metal environments of the early Universe as they are today,  reshaping our understanding of stellar evolution and the origins of […] The post Binary stars everywher…

In 1916, Albert Einstein published the paper that predicted gravitational waves – ripples in the fabric of space-time resulting from the most violent phenomena in our distant universe, such as supernovae explosions or colliding black holes. It took a century for Einstein’s theory to be proven when, in September 2015, the newly commissioned Advanced Laser […] The post A Decade’s Worth Of Gravitati…