Monday, June 12, 2017

Gravitational waves detected a third time

06/12/2017 11:38 AM EDT

image showing a numerical simulation of a binary black hole merger

On Jan. 4, 2017, an international team of scientists (including representatives from the University of Maryland) observed gravitational waves--ripples in the fabric of spacetime--for the third time. The twin Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors--located in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington--detected the gravitational wave event, named GW170104.


Full story at http://cmns.umd.edu/news-events/features/3871

Source
University of Maryland


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