Sentences with phrase «wave detector backs»
The latest signal from the gravitational wave detector backs up Einstein's theory of general relativity and gives more clues on how black holes get their spin
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Back on Earth, a number of ground - based gravitational wave detectors should turn on in the coming years.
Radar satellites come equipped with an antenna that sends radio waves to Earth; after hitting the planet's surface, the signal is reflected and scattered back toward a detector that generates an image without the need for visible light.
To amplify these sound waves enough for his detectors to pick them up, Steinhauer established a second sonic event horizon inside the first, adjusting the fluid so that sound waves could not pass this second event horizon, and are bounced back.
As ground - based gravitational - wave detectors get ready to score their first direct measurement of the ripples of spacetime, thoughts turn to space - based detectors that could see all the way back to the big bang
LIGO detectors previously detected gravitational waves back in 2015 and earlier on this year, but is the first time for Virgo, and the first time the waves have been observed by three detectors simultaneously.