Sentences with phrase «form of gravitational waves»
It also released enough energy to rival the mass of the Sun in the form of gravitational waves.
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But researchers had long sought more direct evidence for inflation in the form of gravitational waves, which squeeze and stretch space.
This image depicts two black holes just moments before they collided and merged with each other, releasing energy in the form of gravitational waves.
Those equations predict that colliding black holes, neutron stars, and other exotic objects should throw off energy in the form of gravitational waves.
Scientists concluded that the pulsar must be losing energy in the form of gravitational waves — a discovery that won Taylor and Hulse the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Measurement of the decay of binary pulsars» orbits has confirmed that they do indeed lose energy and the best explanation is that these pulsars are losing energy in the form of gravitational waves.
Michael Kramer, an astrophysicist at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, and colleagues precisely tracked the deterioration of the pulsars» orbits, presumably due to loss of energy in the form of gravitational waves.
The smash - up releases enormous amounts of energy in the form of gravitational waves.
Taylor and Joel M. Weisberg in 1982 found that the orbit of the pulsar was slowly shrinking over time because of the release of energy in the form of gravitational waves.
In addition, the LIGO and Virgo teams were able to use the frequency of the observed wave, along with its rate of acceleration, to estimate the masses of the two black holes: because heavier objects radiate energy in the form of gravitational waves at a faster rate than do lighter objects, their pitch rises more quickly.
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.