Time to celebrate the opening of a multi-purpose room at the MPI GravPhys in Hannover. A place to come if you need to bring your children to work or to have a quiet place when needed. Big thanks to the #diversity committee for making the institute better. FO

A dazzling cosmic #hourglass is counting down time with #stardust🌟⏳...well, ok not really!😉 It's yet another showstopping photo captured by @NASAWeb - an hourglass-shaped dark cloud surrounding a #protostar - & it makes us feel very poetic about the beauty of the universe!🤗

Fantastic day out at the #gravitationalwave detector #GEO600. Impressive to see what's needed to measure small spacetime distortions. We hope the instrument is still intact after so many theorists visiting... FO

Someone must have stopped by my office last night. I'm glad Saint Nicholas is fascinated by #GravitationalWaves, too. FO

Together with a colleague, I've recorded a few Christmas carols for today's AEI online Christmas party. These are the little things that keep me sane: get a funny costume, find some happy songs and just start playing. 🎶 ABP youtu.be/DqF09qLrA-E

Hey everyone, we just posted a brief interview about my time at the AEI Hannover MPI GravPhys and in the binary merger group Binary Mergers and NR. If you want to learn more about my story and where life goes next, you can read it here: aei.mpg.de/993864/gravita…

What a nice experience to visit Ofek Birnholtz's group, as I was invited to give a talk at #BarIlanUniversity. It took me a while to find the astrophysics department though. 😆 Can't wait to explore this diverse and beautiful country. ABP

📢 We offer two PhD student positions in the “Lasers and squeezed light” research group at our Hannover institute. 📢 job ad: aei.mpg.de/995394/phd-stu… research group: aei.mpg.de/42042/lasers-a… #PhD #PhDposition #academictwitter #laserphysics #gravitationalwaves

How time flies! Seven years ago today, the first direct detection of a gravitational wave was announced. Since then, a total of 90 signals have been detected and as of May 24, many more should follow. #OTD #GW150914 #O4 #GravitationalWaves

Today's a very special day for us😇- it's our birthday!🎂😀Happy birthday, Max Planck Society! 🤗 75 years ago, on February 26, 1948, the Max Planck Society was founded in Göttingen as the successor organization to the Kaiser Wilhelm Society. #OTD #maxplanck75 #maxplanckhistory

Only 10 weeks until the 4th joint observing run (O4) of LIGO, EGO & the Virgo Collaboration, KAGRA Gravitational Wave Observatory, and GEO600 begins on 24 May. Up to date info, highlights from the third observing run and our experts – it's all on aei.mpg.de/26370/current-…. #GravitationalWaves #astronomy #Waiting4O4

1/ Work-life balance in academia can be challenging, but it's essential for maintaining our mental health and overall well-being. Some personal tips for achievieing better balance (I only wish I could always follow them myself!) #AcademicTwitter #WorkLifeBalance

A video produced by our neutron star expert, Wolfgang Kastaun, where he visualized a homemade NR simulation of a binary neutron star merger over the Alps. ☃️ ABP

Time for our #ExpertsWednesday with the gravitational-wave experts at MPI GravPhys. Today: the Binary Mergers and NR independent Max Planck Society research group led by Frank Ohme aei.mpg.de/BinaryObservat…. Expertise: numerical relativity, source modelling. #Waiting4O4 #O4 #GravitationalWaves

Freitagabend schon was vor? Lieber ab 19:00 Uhr den ARTE-Twitch-Stream mit Doktor Whatson sehen! „(*)Wissenschaftler reagieren auf Interstellar“ mit @vicgrinberg und Frank Ohme, Binary Mergers and NR. 📺 twitch.tv/arte_tv/schedu… (*) Wissenschaftlerin und #WissKomm #Twitch #Relativität

Check out part 2 of my series for Offspring Magazine - The Podcast! It was such a pleasure visiting MPI GravPhys in #Hannover and talking to Frank about #gravitationalwaves and what they teach us about #blackholes! Binary Mergers and NR podfollow.com/offspring-podc… #scicomm #wisskomm

Start your day with some black holes! Two recent Offspring Magazine - The Podcast episodes with MPI GravPhys researchers (Laura Sberna and F. Ohme Binary Mergers and NR) on different aspects of this topic. 👇 #BlackHoleWeek #Waiting4O4 #O4

While we're testing our detectors ahead of #O4 starting next week, we have identified our first interesting candidate #S230518h If real, the source is most likely a neutron star–black hole binary. Checks of the data quality are underway Circular: gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/33813 1/3

Why should you bring gravitational-wave astronomy into school? Proudly supporting a teacher training course, hosted by the German Physical Society (DPG) from 26 to 30 June with some leading minds in the field from QuantumFrontiers lnk.tu-bs.de/P9RpAs MPI GravPhys

What happens in neutron star mergers? Complex numerical simulation sheds light on an extreme cosmic process. It took the Japanese supercomputer “Fugaku” 200 days to compute the new model. ➡️ aei.mpg.de/1053548/unders… 📃 journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/1… #BinaryNeutronStar