https://www.visualcinnamon.com/tags/science-news/Recent content in Science News on Visual CinnamonHugoen-usThu, 13 Aug 2026 15:01:54 +0200https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/gravitational-waves/Tue, 26 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/gravitational-waves/<p>First discovered in 2015, LIGO and Virgo have since detected 50 <strong>gravitational wave</strong> events. These ripples through space time itself are caused by the <strong>violent collisions of black holes</strong> (and/or neutron stars) dating back billions of years. To celebrate the release of the 2nd catalog of mergers <em>Science News</em> asked me to <strong>create an interactive data visualization revealing each event</strong> together with a companion for their printed magazine. We wanted to <strong>make the interactive part more special than a static visual</strong>. The final visual includes <strong>sound</strong> bites for some mergers. Hovering over a merger starts a tiny (physics based) <strong>animation</strong> of the merger. Clicking on any merger shows a <strong>pop-up modal</strong> with a lot more detailed information, such as a map of the sky that shows the rough location of where the gravitational waves originated from.</p>