Sentences with phrase «wave detectors get»
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
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«We are starting to get a glimpse of the kind of new astrophysical information that can only come from gravitational wave detectors,» said physicist David Shoemaker, who led the construction of LIGO.
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
The researchers can get some information by comparing the signal's time of arrival at each detector: the difference enables them to calculate the wave's direction relative to an imaginary line drawn between the two.