Monday, December 3, 2018

LIGO and Virgo announce four new gravitational-wave detections

The LIGO and Virgo collaborations have now confidently detected gravitational waves from a total of 10 stellar-mass binary black hole mergers and one merger of neutron stars, which are the dense, spherical remains of stellar explosions. Six of the black hole merger events had been reported before, while four are newly announced.

from Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/2KOs6v7

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