What is Einstein@Home?

Einstein@Home uses your computer's idle time to search for weak astrophysical signals from spinning neutron stars (often called pulsars) using data from the LIGO gravitational-wave detectors, the MeerKAT radio telescope, the Fermi gamma-ray satellite, as well as archival data from the Arecibo radio telescope.

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Einstein@Home is twenty years old today!

February 19, 2025

I want to congratulate all of our Einstein@Home volunteers, developers, and scientists: our project is 20 years old today.  We officially launched ...

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Results from Einstein@Home supernova remnant search published

December 11, 2024

The results of a new Einstein@Home search in public LIGO data have been published in The Astrophysical Journal: “...

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