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Old April 13th 16, 01:35 PM posted to sci.astro,sci.physics
Yousuf Khan[_2_]
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In February, LIGO announced the first detection of gravitational waves, confirming a key prediction of Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity. That historic wave reached Earth at light speed on September 14, 2015, from a pair of black holes that collided 1.3 billion light-years away.

But LIGO heard another suspect gravitational wave signal that got less attention. Though it wasn’t as strong, it looked promising.

The Other Collision
An analysis of that event, labeled LVT151012, has shown with 90 percent certainty that it also came from a pair of colliding black holes. That’s not sufficient for scientists to deem it a “detection,” but the LIGO team is confident enough that they’re using it to start piecing together a picture of black holes in the universe.

As more detections stream in from LIGO, astronomers can begin to get an idea for the size of most stellar mass black holes. The likely second detection, LVT151012, had black holes of 23 and 13 solar masses — more in line with what astronomers expected to detect.



Prepare for an explosion of gravitational wave detections | Astronomy.com
http://www.astronomy.com/news/2016/0...ave-detections
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Old April 15th 16, 01:21 AM posted to sci.astro,sci.physics
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On 4/13/16 7:35 AM, Yousuf Khan wrote:
In February, LIGO announced the first detection of gravitational
waves, confirming a key prediction of Albert Einstein’s theory of
general relativity. That historic wave reached Earth at light speed on
September 14, 2015, from a pair of black holes that collided 1.3
billion light-years away.

But LIGO heard another suspect gravitational wave signal that got less
attention. Though it wasn’t as strong, it looked promising.

The Other Collision
An analysis of that event, labeled LVT151012, has shown with 90
percent certainty that it also came from a pair of colliding black
holes. That’s not sufficient for scientists to deem it a “detection,”
but the LIGO team is confident enough that they’re using it to start
piecing together a picture of black holes in the universe.

As more detections stream in from LIGO, astronomers can begin to get
an idea for the size of most stellar mass black holes. The likely
second detection, LVT151012, had black holes of 23 and 13 solar masses
— more in line with what astronomers expected to detect.



Prepare for an explosion of gravitational wave detections | Astronomy.com
http://www.astronomy.com/news/2016/0...ave-detections



I expect many events detected/confirmed this year -- truly new eyes
on our cosmos. This is exciting in deed!

New method of detecting gravitational waves
http://phys.org/news/2016-04-method-...al-closer.html



Professor David Blair from the Australian International Gravitational
Research Centre (AIGRC) at UWA said the breakthrough could eventually
see hundreds of gravity wave 'events' being recorded every day.

He said the cutting-edge technology involved tiny new devices known
as 'cat-flap' pendulums less than a millimetre in size which would be
fitted to existing gravitational wave detectors.

"Currently the detectors can only detect huge tsunami-like waves, but
with the new technology we would be able to extend that range about
seven times," Professor Blair said.





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