Sentences with phrase «hole merger just»
The two US detectors, one in Washington and the other in Louisiana, saw the signal of a black hole merger just a few milliseconds apart, but with just two detectors the location of the source couldn't be pinned down.
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By the time the waves from the black - hole merger arrived, they had become tiny ripples, changing the length of the pipes by just 1 part in 1 billion trillion.
Last June, the consortium reported a second black hole merger, but the black holes involved weighed just 8 and 14 solar masses.
«The fact it repeats rules out — for this object anyway — any of the models that are just one - offs, whether they involve mergers or evaporating black holes or something else,» says study co-author James Cordes, an astronomer at Cornell University.
When Eleonora Troja got the LIGO notification on 17 August that new gravitational waves had been detected, she dismissed it at first, assuming it was just another black - hole merger, she recalls.
As long as the black holes get a just little closer than their final separation in the simulation, they will start giving off gravitational waves — ripples in space - time that carry energy away — which would then guarantee a final merger, he says.
The research team led by Satoru Iguchi, Associate Professor of NAOJ, succeeded in observing a very close binary black hole in the center of 3C66B (a giant elliptical galaxy within the cluster A347) just before its black hole merger.