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Congrats to OzGrav Associate Investigator, Matt Dodds, recipient of the 2025 Prime Minister’s Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching in Secondary Schools!
We’re incredibly proud to see Matt’s dedication to STEM education recognised on a national stage. 🙌
#PMPrizes

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OzGrav Associate Investigator Matt Dodds awarded the 2025 Prime Minister’s Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching in Secondary Schools - OzGrav
OzGrav celebrates Matt Dodds, awarded the 2025 Prime Minister’s Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching for inspiring physics education in rural Australia
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November 3, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Happy Halloween from OzGrav!

Space can be spooky, from black holes to zombie stars, and the eerie silence to the possibility of life. Here's what our OzGrav'ers think is the most spooky about the universe.

Music by Mikhail Smusev from Pixabay
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October 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
We’re closer to solving dark matter thanks to these black holes!

OzGrav PhD student at ANU, Aswathi, was part of the analysis team of the GW241011+GW241110 special event paper. Here she explains how these events helped refine our understanding of dark matter.

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October 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Two #blackhole mergers, GW241011 & GW241110, detected a month apart in 2024 are helping scientists learn how black holes form, spin & evolve. Researchers from OzGrav & ANU, incl. PhD student Aswathi P Subhash & CI Dr Ling (Lilli) Sun contributed key analysis.
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Twin Black Hole Mergers Reveal Secrets of Cosmic Evolution - OzGrav
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 ...
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October 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
New research by OzGrav PhD student Paul Disberg and Chief Investigator Prof. Ilya Mandel (Monash University) explores how newborn neutron stars get a powerful natal kick — a supernova shove that launches them at hundreds of km/s!

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#Astrophysics #NeutronStars #Supernova
Kicking Neutron Stars from the Nest - AAS Nova
Neutron stars are born running, and recent research explores just how fast they start off.
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October 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
✨ OzGrav Space Times is back!
We’re thrilled to relaunch our official newsletter, your go-to source for updates, discoveries, and stories from the gravitational-wave community.

Check out the October 2025 issue and catch up on all things OzGrav!
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October 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Celebrating 10 Years of Gravitational Waves!

Last week, OzGrav hosted a two-day workshop at Swinburne to mark a decade since the first detection of gravitational waves, GW150914, a discovery that reshaped astrophysics and confirmed Einstein’s prediction.

Here’s to the next decade of discovery!
September 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
This happened 10 years ago, and it was weird!
GW150914 was the first ever detection of gravitational waves, when two black holes collided, sending ripples through space.
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This happened 10 years ago, and it was weird! #GW10Years
This happened 10 years ago, and it was weird! GW150914 was the first ever detection of gravitational waves, when two black holes collided, sending ripples through space. Find out more about…
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September 17, 2025 at 11:53 PM
A decade ago, we heard the universe for the first time. Gravitational waves changed physics forever. Here’s how Australia helped make it happen.

🎓 Discover the story in our new documentary: youtu.be/n12Ml1sI2Kw
10 Years of Gravitational Wave Science: The Australian Story
Ten years ago, in 2015, we heard the universe for the very first time. Gravitational waves, once a prediction of Einstein’s theory, had finally been detected in an event labelled GW150914. It was a…
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September 14, 2025 at 11:09 PM
A new gravitational wave event rocked detectors almost 10 years after the first detection. But this time, it was up to four times as loud thanks to a decade of upgrades.

OzGrav Associate Investigator Dr Simon Stevenson explains more in The Conversation:

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10 years ago, gravitational waves changed astronomy. A new discovery shows there’s more to come
First, gravitational waves proved Einstein correct. Now, they’ve confirmed Stephen Hawking was right about black holes.
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September 10, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Ten years ago, we heard the universe for the first time. Now, we’ve heard it again... only louder.

OzGrav researchers, Neil Lu, PhD student at the Australian National University (ANU), and Teagan Clarke, PhD student at Monash University, explain!

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We heard the universe ring... loudly. OzGrav researchers explain!
Ten years ago, we heard the universe for the first time. Now, we’ve heard it again... only louder. The gravitational wave event GW250114, observed by the LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA collaborations, is…
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September 10, 2025 at 10:22 PM
New in Nature Astronomy: An international study co-authored by OzGrav’s Prof Ilya Mandel reveals massive stars are just as likely to form in close binaries in the early Universe as today, reshaping our understanding of stellar evolution & gravitational wave origins.
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Binary stars everywhere: Monash University scientists help rewrite cosmic origin story - OzGrav
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…
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September 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Congratulations to OzGrav's Deputy Director, Professor Tamara Davis AM, recipient of the 2025 Moyal Medal awarded by Macquarie University for her outstanding contributions to astrophysics and cosmology.

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Milestone Moyal Medal awarded to astrophysicist Tamara Davis
Professor Davis, an astrophysicist at UQ’s School of Mathematics, will receive the medal and deliver the 2025 Moyal Lecture on Thursday 9 October. Her lecture, titled ‘New light on dark energy: the…
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September 1, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Vale Rai Weiss

Image: Rainer Weiss after receiving his Nobel Prize at the Stockholm Concert Hall, 10 December 2017. (Credit: Pi Frisk/Nobel Media AB 2017)
August 27, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Congratulations to OzGrav Partner Investigator Dr Michael Kramer and OzGrav Chief Investigator Prof Adam Deller, whose international team has been awarded the 2025 Frontiers of Science Award for their research on the Double Pulsar.
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Gravity Tests with the Double Pulsar Honoured - OzGrav
2025 Frontiers of Science Award for the international Double Pulsar research team The research paper “Strong-Field Gravity Tests with the Double Pulsar” led by OzGrav Partner Investigator Michael…
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August 22, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Last chance to register for our National Science Week event!
📅 13 Aug
⏰ 5:30 PM: Science Outreach Activities | 6:30 PM: Panel + Audience Q&A
📍 AMDC301, Swinburne University
🎟️ Tickets: 2 adults for $10 ($5 each!)
👧 Children (0–16 years): FREE
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Decoding the Universe | National Science Week @ Swinburne
Hands‑on science + a powerhouse astrophysics panel: Decode the Universe this National Science Week at Swinburne.
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August 9, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Dynamic Radio Sky 2025 at USyd wrapped up last Friday with an amazing turnout of over 90 radio astronomers from Australia and abroad. The feedback has been fantastic, with standout talks from students and experts alike. A huge thank you to everyone who attended and made the conference a success!
August 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Join us this National Science Week!
📅 Date: Wednesday, 13 August 2025
⏰ Time: 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM: Science Outreach Activities | 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM: Panel + Audience Q&A
📍 Venue: AMDC301, Swinburne University
🎟️ Tickets: $10 adults | Free for kids
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Decoding the Universe | National Science Week @ Swinburne
Hands‑on science + a powerhouse astrophysics panel: Decode the Universe this National Science Week at Swinburne.
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July 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Congrats to Natasha Van Bemmel on winning an MNRAS Student Prize. The MNRAS editors selected her first‑author paper, An Optically Led Search for Kilonovae to z~0.3 with KNTraP, as one of six best student‑led publications this year, what a debut!
#OzGrav #Swinburne #MNRAS #NatashaVanBemmel
July 17, 2025 at 1:30 AM
GW231123: Heaviest black‑hole merger yet detected in gravitational waves.
~100 M☉ + ~140 M☉ → ~225 M☉ remnant, spins near physical limit.
“This blip forces us to rethink how very heavy, rapidly spinning black holes come to be.” – Prof Eric Thrane
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LIGO Detects Most Massive Black Hole Merger to Date - OzGrav
Gravitational waves from record‑breaking black holes challenge current astrophysical models The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration has observed the heaviest black‑hole merger ever detected,…
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July 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
OzGrav has been awarded the Gold Pleiades Award by the Astronomical Society of Australia’s IDEA Chapter! The award recognises our sustained commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion, and reflects the collective effort of our community in building an inclusive and supportive research environment.
July 8, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Blink and you’ll miss it! Astronomers have captured a 30-nanosecond radio ‘spark’ from NASA’s long-silent Relay 2 satellite. See how this surprise find sharpens our hunt for Fast Radio Bursts 👉 www.ozgrav.org/news/astrono...
Astronomers spot nanosecond ‘spark’ from a defunct NASA satellite while looking for Fast Radio Bursts - OzGrav
Astronomers have detected an ultra-bright burst of radio waves from Relay 2, a NASA communications satellite launched in 1964 and silent since 1967. OzGrav Chief Investigator Adam Deller, Professor…
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June 30, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Swinburne’s Indigenous Astrophysics Work Experience Program returns this July, giving First Nations Year 10-12 students a week of hands-on astrophysics, blending cutting-edge research with the world’s oldest sky stories.
🔗 Read more: nit.com.au/13-06-2025/1...

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June 23, 2025 at 1:42 AM
🌟 Huge congrats to OzGrav Deputy Director Prof Tamara Davis AM FAA, newly elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science! Her work on dark energy is changing how we understand the Universe.
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#WomenInSTEM
UQ professors named Australian Academy of Science Fellows
Four UQ scientists - including SMP's Professor Tamara Davis - have been named among the nation’s best, receiving Australian Academy of Science Fellowships for remarkable research in their fields.
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June 6, 2025 at 5:31 AM
inSTEM 2025 wrapped up last week & what an inspiring 2 days it was! Huge thanks to all who joined, especially to Prof Emma Lee OAM for her powerful keynote. Shoutout to OzGrav's Diana Haikal & Kirsten Banks for their brilliant Networking 101 workshop.
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June 5, 2025 at 12:20 AM