Sentences with phrase «of gravitational waves generated»

An artist's impression of gravitational waves generated by binary neutron stars.

The first two detections of gravitational waves generated by the collision of two black holes were reported last year.

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Physicists could look for evidence of other universes using tools designed to measure ripples in spacetime — also known as primordial gravitational waves — that would have been generated by the universe's initial expansion from the Big Bang.

These gravitational waves were generated by two black holes — eight and 14 times the mass of the sun — merging together 1.4 billion light years away from Earth.

As early as 2021 it will be joined by the Einstein Probe, a wide - field x-ray sentinel for transient phenomena such as gamma ray bursts and the titanic collisions of neutron stars or black holes that generate gravitational waves.

Gravitational waves detectable from Earth are generated by collisions of massive objects, such as when two black holes or neutron stars merge.

BlackGEM is going to hunt down optical counterparts of sources of gravitational waves — tiny ripples in spacetime generated by colliding black holes and neutron stars and detected for the first time in 2015 by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observgravitational waves — tiny ripples in spacetime generated by colliding black holes and neutron stars and detected for the first time in 2015 by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave ObservGravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO).

The merger generates powerful ripples in space called gravitational waves that kick the newly merged black hole away at speeds of hundreds or even thousands of kilometres per second.

Buonanno has led the effort to develop highly accurate models of gravitational waves that black holes would generate in the final process of orbiting and colliding with each other.

Gravitational waves from inflation generate a faint but distinctive twisting pattern in the polarization of the cosmic microwave background, known as a «curl» or B - mode pattern.

Of course, LIGO doesn't generate large gravitational waves — you could probably make bigger ones yourself by whirling bowling balls around — but it does so with optimal efficiency.

That simple model should generate strong gravitational waves, which would leave their own distinctive imprint on the polarisation of the microwave background.

Inflation would generate gravitational waves, giving a subtle twist to the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the ubiquitous whisper of radiation left over from the Big Bang.

If this interpretation of the observations is correct, it could confirm a 30 - year - old prediction of the cosmic inflation theory: that the simplest models of inflation can generate an observable level of gravitational waves, comparable to density or temperature fluctuations in the early universe.

Averaging over some 350 high - galactic - latitude patches of sky similar in size to the region observed by BICEP2, Puget reported that polarization from interstellar dust grains plays a significant role and might account for much of the BICEP2 signal that had been attributed to inflation - generated gravitational waves.

Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of space - time generated by some of the most violent events in the universe, such as the merging of two black holes.

According to Einstein's theory of general relativity, two orbiting black holes will generate powerful gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of space - time.

The VLA made the first detection of radio waves coming from the neutron - star collision that generated a ripple of gravitational waves.

Like the historic first detection announced this past February, these gravitational waves were also generated by the merger of two black holes.

A new study suggests that the gravitational waves detected by the LIGO experiment must have come from black holes generated during the collapse of stars, and not in the earliest phases of the Universe.

Many scientists believe that during this brief moment, the monumental expansion of the cosmos would have generated gravitational waves.

Although scientists have theorized that short GRBs are generated by colliding neutron stars, only with the help of gravitational wave detectors could this be confirmed.

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.

The California Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology designed and operate the NSF - funded LIGO that is aimed to see and record gravitational waves for the first time, allowing us to learn more about phenomena like supernovae and colliding black holes that generate the waves.

The gravitational waves were generated by the merger of two medium - size black holes about 1.3 billion years ago, researchers said.