«We have observed — on the 4th of January, 2017 — another massive black hole -
black hole binary coalescence; the in - spiral and merging of black holes 20 and 30 times the mass of our sun,» Dave Shoemaker, a senior research scientist who works at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the spokesperson for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, told reporters during a special news briefing on Wednesday (May 31).
Not exact matches
GW170814: A three - detector observation of gravitational waves from a
binary black hole coalescence.
«They are the most complete and accurate models of
binary black -
hole coalescence.»
«All observations until the last one were from the
coalescence of
binary black hole systems,» Lazzati said.
These findings were published in Physical Review Letters the week of October 11 in a paper titled «Formation and
Coalescence of Cosmological Supermassive -
Black -
Hole Binaries in Supermassive - Star Collapse.»
GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22 - Solar - mass
Binary Black Hole Coalescence.
The research paper, «GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22 Solar - mass
Binary Black Hole Coalescence,» by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration, has been accepted for publication in the journal Physical Review Letters.
More information: GW170608: Observation of a 19 - solar - mass
Binary Black Hole Coalescence, arXiv: 1711.05578 [astro - ph.
A paper describing the newly confirmed observation, «GW170608: Observation of a 19 - solar - mass
binary black hole coalescence,» authored by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration has been submitted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters and is available to read on the arXiv.
The inferred source of both events is the
coalescence of a stellar mass
binary black hole system at cosmological distances.