This is big news! All of the excitement out of LIGO the last few years makes me wish I was studying gravitational wave astronomy. I mean this thing was huge, releasing 8 solar masses of energy...
This is big news! All of the excitement out of LIGO the last few years makes me wish I was studying gravitational wave astronomy.
I mean this thing was huge, releasing 8 solar masses of energy into gravitational waves.
I also made a separate post about this in ~space (having both topics is fine, I just wanted to point it out). I think the Ars article I linked to there does a good job of collecting together...
I also made a separate post about this in ~space (having both topics is fine, I just wanted to point it out). I think the Ars article I linked to there does a good job of collecting together information and statements from various other sources, there's a lot coming out about this right now.
This is big news! All of the excitement out of LIGO the last few years makes me wish I was studying gravitational wave astronomy.
I mean this thing was huge, releasing 8 solar masses of energy into gravitational waves.
I also made a separate post about this in ~space (having both topics is fine, I just wanted to point it out). I think the Ars article I linked to there does a good job of collecting together information and statements from various other sources, there's a lot coming out about this right now.