Sentences with phrase «of black hole mergers»

The signals from a number of black hole mergers, for example, can be combined to help understand the nature of dark energy, which is causing the universe's expansion to accelerate.

Physicists on the LIGO and Virgo teams concluded that the final moments of a black hole merger produced the gravitational waves observed on December 26, 2015.

They'll help researchers hunt for gravitational wave signals below 100 Hz, the frequency where traces of black hole mergers can be found.

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Rodriguez and colleagues used 52 detailed computer models to demonstrate how a globular cluster acts as a dominant source of binary black holes, producing hundreds of black hole mergers over a cluster's 12 - billion - year lifetime.

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.

After its historical first detection, NSF's LIGO observed four instances of black hole mergers.

Lately scientists» excitement has grown thanks to well - publicized rumors about a discovery — some specific (detection of a black hole merger), some not so much.

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The scientists combed through masses of simulated black hole data until they found the faint but unambiguous sound of black hole mergers.

The LIGO press release mentions an estimation of black hole merger rates — «about one every 10 years in a volume a trillion times the size of the Milky Way Galaxy» — based on how many signals it's detected so far.

If they do, it would go a long way in shedding light on something known as the «final parsec problem,» which refers to the failure of current theoretical models in predicting what the final stages of a black hole merger may look like.

Findings from this and two previous discoveries of black hole mergers are providing the WSU scientists and colleagues at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO) an unprecedented glimpse into the early universe and shedding new light on how binary black holes form.

The increasing amplitude and frequency of the waves during the merger if converted to audio sound waves would make a sound like a chirp of a bird, so the LIGO scientists refer to it as the chirp of a black hole merger.

Dense star clusters may serve as breeding grounds for successive generations of black hole mergers, resulting in gargantuan holes, generating gravitational waves that researchers hope to detect.