«It's hard to describe; after years of dreaming about this, writing all these papers saying, «Maybe we could even see two
big black holes collide, it would be phenomenal!»
Not exact matches
Everything with mass in the universe theoretically creates them — you and me included — but only highly cataclysmic events, such as exploding stars,
colliding black holes, or the
Big Bang, can generate waves that are powerful enough for LIGO to detect.
Colliding black holes, merging neutron stars and even the
Big Bang itself (SN: 2/21/15, p. 13) should send out ripples in space that echo across the cosmos.
Extragalactic neutrinos come from elementary particles that
collided shortly after the
big bang or crashed into each other while orbiting massive objects like
black holes.
Neutron stars, along with
colliding black holes and the
Big Bang, may all be sources of gravitational waves.