Sentences with phrase «detection of gravitational waves as»

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The first - ever direct detection of gravitational waves, our top story in 2016, launched a long - dreamed - of kind of astronomy capable of «unlocking otherwise unknowable secrets of the cosmos,» as physics writer Emily Conover puts it.

The publication follows months of debate as to whether or not the researchers were justified in claiming a detection of gravitational waves (SN:...

This detection is important because it marks the beginning of a new era of «multi-messenger» as well as «multi-wavelength» space exploration — an era when gravitational - wave detectors are triggering a global network of other types of instruments to focus their special detection powers simultaneously on one fleetingly explosive point in space.

As with previous detections of gravitational waves, the scientists used their measurements to test general relativity.

All the previous gravitational - wave detections since the first in September 2015 had been the result of two merging black holes — objects much more massive than a neutron star — which have left only gravitational waves as fleeting clues of their merger.

The publication follows months of debate as to whether or not the researchers were justified in claiming a detection of gravitational waves (SN: 6/13/14).

Two detections of gravitational waves caused by collisions between supermassive black holes should be possible each year using space - based instruments such as the Evolved Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (eLISA) detector that is due to launch in 2034, the researchers said.

Through these efforts, astronomers are attempting to understand recently discovered phenomena such as the first detections of gravitational waves from neutron star collisions and the accompanying electromagnetic fireworks as well as regular stars being engulfed by supermassive black holes.

Other cosmic phenomena such as supernovae in the Milky Way and colliding neutron stars in our galactic neighborhood should also produce detectable gravitational waves, each with their own accompanying revolutionary insights, but so far all three of LIGO's detections have been death - rattles from merging pairs of black holes in remote stretches of the universe.

«Fundamentally, the detection of gravitational waves was a huge deal, as it was a confirmation of a key prediction of Einstein's general theory of relativity,» Bullock said.

This year astronomy was the focus of the Nobel Prize in Physics, as three astronomers two of whom are faculty members at one of our parent institutions, the California Institute of Technology were recognized for four decades of work leading to one of the great discoveries of modern astronomy, the detection of gravitational waves.

Officially known as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory, LIGO previously announced the detection of gravitational waves in February 2016 and June 2016 (although those events were actually recorded in September 2015 and December 2015, rGravitational - Wave Observatory, LIGO previously announced the detection of gravitational waves in February 2016 and June 2016 (although those events were actually recorded in September 2015 and December 2015, rgravitational waves in February 2016 and June 2016 (although those events were actually recorded in September 2015 and December 2015, respectively).

The first direct detection of gravitational waves occurred in mid-September 2015 (but announced February 11, 2016) with twin LIGO detectors in Hanford, WA and Livingston, LA (both USA) when ripples of spacetime from the last fraction of a second of the merger of two black holes with masses 29 and 36 solar masses combined to form a 62 - solar mass black hole with 3 solar masses of energy radiated away as gravitational waves in that last fraction of a second.

A Caltech Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus, Co-founder of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO), and a recipient of the Nobel Prize for his instrumental role in the first direct detection of ripples in spacetime known as gravitational waves, Dr. Thorne's work is making history and ushering in an exciting new era Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO), and a recipient of the Nobel Prize for his instrumental role in the first direct detection of ripples in spacetime known as gravitational waves, Dr. Thorne's work is making history and ushering in an exciting new era gravitational waves, Dr. Thorne's work is making history and ushering in an exciting new era in astronomy.

Brian O'Reilly, one of the lead scientists at the Livingston location of the gravitational wave detection facility known as LIGO, was just beginning his day.

The requirements of gravitational wave detection as a whole are so extreme that the system designed around the laser improves its frequency and power stability by a factor of 100 million for the LIGO experiments.