A @royalsociety University Research Fellow @unibirmingham in Gravitational Wave Astronomy and a member of @LIGO. Opinions my own. 🏴 🇦🇹 🇪🇺
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Joined February 2011
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Geraint Pratten retweeted
Ten years after the first gravitational wave was detected, our astrophysicists have helped to confirm two long-standing theories relating to black holes – including a 1971 prediction by Prof. Stephen Hawking
birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/h…
ALT Artistic representation of a ringing rotating black hole. Credits: Aurore Simonnet (SSU/EdEon).
Geraint Pratten retweeted
Ten years after the first gravitational wave was detected, @unibirmingham astrophysicists have helped to confirm two long-standing theories relating to black holes – including a 1971 prediction by Prof. Stephen Hawking:
birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/h… @grntprttn @LIGO @PhysRevLett
ALT Artistic representation of a ringing rotating black hole.
Geraint Pratten retweeted
Orbital eccentricity in a neutron star - black hole binary. arxiv.org/abs/2503.15393
Geraint Pratten retweeted
The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration, which includes astronomers and scientists from @unibirmingham, detected a remarkable gravitational-wave signal called GW230529 back in April:
birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/m… @grntprttn @p_g_schmidt @UoBIGWaves #ResearchRoundup
ALT Time lapse of stars in night sky.
Geraint Pratten retweeted
🚨 We are hiring Postdoc Fellows in Gravitational Waves / Compact Objects / Massive Stars 🌟 🚨adv: aas.org/jobregister/ad/28026…… more info: docs.google.com/document/d/1……
Come join our fantastic campus & department!
@ucsdastro @UCSanDiego👇🌟-& yes we are also taking PhD students!
Geraint Pratten retweeted
As Chair of All Party Parliamentary & Scientific Committee, & former Minister for Science, Research & Innovation I have written to @RachelReevesMP to stress importance of R&D in growing the economy & tackling the big challenges we face...
@sciencecampaign
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Geraint Pratten retweeted
Our department is hiring! Please share with folks you know who are looking for a *permanent* teaching faculty position, in either astronomy or physics. Apply at careers.olemiss.edu/job/Univ…
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Geraint Pratten retweeted
Today the Royal Society launches our manifesto for science ahead of the next general election. The manifesto provides clear proposals for how the next government can build a more resilient and prosperous future. Read it here: royalsociety.org/topics-poli…
#ManifestoForScience
Geraint Pratten retweeted
It is with great sadness that the Simons Foundation announces the death of its co-founder and chair emeritus, James Harris Simons. Jim was an award-winning mathematician, a legendary investor and a generous philanthropist. simonsfoundation.org/2024/05…
ALT Photo of James Harris Simons, credit: Beatrice de Gea
Geraint Pratten retweeted
The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration, which includes astronomers and scientists from @unibirmingham, has detected a remarkable gravitational-wave signal called GW230529:
birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/m… @grntprttn @p_g_schmidt @UoBIGWaves #MayThe4thBeWithYou #StarWarsDay
Geraint Pratten retweeted
📢Some very exciting news over the weekend! The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (@LIGO-@ego_virgo-@KAGRA_PR) collaboration announced the first exceptional event from the fourth observing run, GW230529! 💫
Image: @astronerdika
Geraint Pratten retweeted
The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration, which includes astronomers and scientists from @unibirmingham, has detected a remarkable gravitational-wave signal called GW230529:
birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/m… @grntprttn @p_g_schmidt @UoBIGWaves
Geraint Pratten retweeted
Today the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration is proud to announce GW230529, the first exceptional #GravitationalWaves event from our fourth observing run (#O4). You can learn more from @astronerdika's excellent infographic, or by visiting our detection page! ligo.org/detections/GW230529…
Geraint Pratten retweeted
Announcement: FIRST Exceptional #GravitationalWaves Event from #ObservingRun4 (#O4) w/:
GW230529!!
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Find Out More on #GW230529 event page: ligo.org/detections/GW230529…
@LIGO @ego_virgo @KAGRA_PR #LIGOVirgoKAGRA – at Washington, USA
Geraint Pratten retweeted
If you've heard me talk about "secret LIGO work" over the last several months, I'm super excited to finally be able to share the discovery of GW230529: the first observation of a mass-gap object merging with a neutron star! ligo.org/detections/GW230529…
Image: @astronerdika
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Geraint Pratten retweeted
Latin American Students: Sign up for our summer course on General Relativity and Cosmology (in Spanish)@PhysicsLatam📢
We will explore topics on Black Holes, Cosmology, Inflation, Gravitational Waves and more!
Apply rb.gy/xs1xgu
📅 June-August
More information soon!
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The @unibirmingham will collaborate on the development of the first gravitational-wave observatory in space, which may go into orbit in mid-2030:
birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/u… @grntprttn @agmvecchio #BrumHour
Geraint Pratten retweeted
The @unibirmingham will collaborate on the development of the first gravitational-wave observatory in space, which may go into orbit in mid-2030:
birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/u… @grntprttn @agmvecchio
Geraint Pratten retweeted
The @unibirmingham will collaborate on the development of the first gravitational-wave observatory in space, which may go into orbit in mid-2030:
birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/u… @grntprttn @agmvecchio
Geraint Pratten retweeted
“LISA will uncover the early stages of stellar-mass black hole binaries while the next generation of ground-based detectors will see their violent mergers, providing [...] a complete picture of their evolution.”
Patricia Schmidt
@p_g_schmidt @LISACommunity
ALT The image shows a quote from Patricia Schmidt on the LISA Adoption News: “LISA will uncover the early stages of stellar-mass black hole binaries while the next generation of ground-based detectors will see their violent mergers, providing exciting prospects for multi-band observations to paint a complete picture of their evolution.” The background image shows a visualisation of gravitational waves from a massive black hole binary by Geraint Pratten / Royal Society University Research Fellow at The University of Birmingham Institute for Gravitational Wave Astronomy.