2 converging black holes

• by PlanetGazer8350

  
  Two black holes converge together peturbating space-time. In theory this signals should be captured from earth by radio wavelength

  Posted February 11, 2016 1:44 PM

• by JeanTate

  Cool! 😃 Welcome to GRZ, PlanetGazer8350! 😃

  In theory this signals should be captured from earth by radio wavelength

  Are you sure? The merger itself would not produce much in the way of radio emission would it? However, it may greatly energize any jets from either SMBH (assuming the two BH are in the nuclei of distant galaxies), but if they were merely stellar-mass BHs?

  Happy hunting!

  Posted February 11, 2016 2:51 PM

• by JeanTate

  And here's today's LIGO PR, announcing the unambiguous detection of gravitational waves, from a pair of colliding stellar-mass (~30 sols) black holes, in a galaxy a long way away (and far far in the past): Gravitational Waves Detected 100 Years After Einstein's Prediction (it may be a bit slow to load; it's a very busy day for that server!)

  Posted February 11, 2016 4:15 PM

• by sisifolibre

  Yeah, the live streaming of the press conference have just finish and have been amazing!

  http://www.nature.com/news/einstein-s-gravitational-waves-found-at-last-1.19361

  This is a great day for science!

  Posted February 11, 2016 4:52 PM