Jonas Enander

Jonas Enander

Jonas Enander is a Swedish science writer covering physics and astronomy. He has a PhD in physics from Stockholm University. After doing postdoctoral research in cosmology and astrophysics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, he switched career to popular science writing. He has since published several articles for different Swedish magazines.

Articles by: Jonas Enander

An illustration showing the universe as a wobbly grid, with bright black holes warping the grid

The universe is rippling with a faint 'gravitational wave background' created by colliding black holes, huge international study suggests

By Jonas Enander published

A 15-year search reveals the first evidence of a cosmic 'gravitational wave background' emitted by ancient, colliding black holes.

An illustration of two supermassive black holes about to collide as gravitational waves spill into space

Gravitational wave lab LIGO roars back online to detect the oldest black hole collisions ever seen

By Jonas Enander published

LIGO has been upgraded to observe gigantic black hole mergers 5 billion light-years away.

Photo of Nobel Prize winner John F. Clauser, Oct. 4, 2022

Nobody took John F. Clauser's quantum experiments seriously. 50 years later, he's collecting a Nobel Prize.

By Jonas Enander published

John F. Clauser reflects on receiving the 2022 Nobel Prize in physics for the groundbreaking work he did 50 years ago.