Sentences with phrase «black hole merger events»

So if we see black hole merger events before stars existed, then we'll know that those black holes are not of stellar origin.»

The very first detection of gravitational waves on 14 September 2015: Signals received by the LIGO instruments at Hanford, Washington (left) and Livingston, Louisiana (right) and comparisons of these signals to the signals expected due to a black hole merger event.

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Being able to study things like black hole mergers through gravity will shed light on some of the «darkest yet most energetic events in our universe,» said Albert Lazzarini, deputy director of the LIGO Laboratory, in an American Physical Society press release.

Two common models for gamma - ray emission from FRBs exist: one invoking magnetic flare events from magnetars — highly magnetized neutron stars that are the dense remnants of collapsed stars — and another invoking the catastrophic merger of two neutron stars, colliding to form a black hole.

For the first time, scientists worldwide and at Penn State University have detected both gravitational waves and light shooting toward our planet from one massively powerful event in space — the birth of a new black hole created by the merger of two neutron stars.

The other aspect is that space - time is incredibly stiff: that's why you need a cataclysmic event like the merger of two black holes to produce a distortion that we can measure.

A year ago, LIGO confirmed a prediction made by Albert Einstein a century earlier: that violent cosmic events, like the merger of two black holes, would wrench the fabric of spacetime and emit ripples.

LIGO's detection of this event, plus another, fainter signal that also looks like a black hole merger, means we can conclude that black hole binaries this size can and do form in nature.

But only some of the most massive astrophysical events, such mergers of black holes and neutron stars, can produce gravitational waves strong enough to be detected on earth.

The researchers are lucky to have caught this unique event because not every black - hole merger produces imbalanced gravitational waves that propel a black hole in the opposite direction.

Gravitational waves are ripples in space - time caused by events like the merger of two black holes.

A discovery would confirm one of general relativity's most extraordinary predictions and provide an unprecedented glimpse of cataclysmic events such as black hole mergers.

Such events could include the mergers of lighter binary black holes, of binary neutron stars or of a black hole with a neutron star.

More - stringent tests will be possible if and when LIGO detects black - hole mergers that are larger than this one, or that occur closer to Earth than the Event's estimated distance of 1.3 billion light years, and thus give «louder» waves that stay above the noise for longer.

Mészáros notes that the gravitational waves looked like they came from objects smaller in mass than black holes, which pointed to neutron stars, and that the electromagnetic emissions separately correlated to the event provide two ways to show proof - positive that this is a neutron star merger.

This event, detected by the two NSF - supported LIGO detectors at 02:01:16 UTC on June 8, 2017 (or 10:01:16 pm on June 7 in US Eastern Daylight time), was actually the second binary black hole merger observed during LIGO's second observation run since being upgraded in a program called Advanced LIGO.

Unlike the first four gravitational wave events that involved mergers of black holes, the fifth event involved the merger of neutron stars.

Title: Merger of Multiple Accreting Black Holes Concordant with Gravitational Wave Events Author: Hiromichi Tagawa & Masayuki Umemura First Author's Institution: Eötvös University, Hungary; National Astronomical Observatory of Japan Status: Accepted to ApJ

When an energetic event occurs (like a black hole merger or neutron star collision), spacetime becomes violently disturbed and energy is carried away from the event in the form of gravitational waves — like ripples traveling across the water's surface after dropping a pebble in a pond.

This latest detection originated from a merger creating a black hole of 49 solar masses (another «heavy» black hole like the first one), but the merger happened over twice as far away than previous events.

The 2015 events were caused by mergers creating black holes 62 and 21 solar masses in galaxies 1.3 and 1.4 billion light - years away, respectively.

Otherwise unknowable details of some of the universe's most violent events — from neutron star and binary black hole mergers, to supernova explosions and even the Big Bang itself — should be revealed by the tell - tale gravitational waves they produce.