World-first detector reports rare events
A ground-breaking detector that aims to use quartz to capture high frequency gravitational waves has been built by researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics (CDM) and The University of Western Australia’s QDM Laboratory.
In its first 153 days of operation, two events were detected that could, in principle, be high frequency gravitational waves, which have not been recorded by scientists before.
Such high frequency gravitational waves may have been created by a primordial black hole or a cloud of dark matter particles.
The results were published this month in the American Physical Society APS Physics journal in an article titled “Rare Events Detected with a Bulk Acoustic Wave High Frequency Gravitational Wave Antenna”.
More articles following the press release—
Cosmos Weekly – Interview: Maxim Goryachev and William Campell (subscription required)
Physics.org — ”World-first detector designed by dark matter researchers records rare events”
New Atlas — ”Never-before-detected gravitational waves hint at dark matter”
Info Cancha (Italy) — ”El primer detector del mundo diseñado por investigadores de materia oscura registra eventos raros”
Gizmodo — ”New Dark Matter Detector Records Rare, High-Frequency Events”
Interesting Engineering — ”Scientists Detected Gravitational Waves That Could Stem From ‘Dark Matter Particles'“
Space Australia — ”New Gravitational Wave Detector Records Rare Events”
The results are also presented on a popular maths and science channel on YouTube
Anton Petrov YouTube channel — “Two Unexplained Signals Found by a New Gravitational Wave Detector”