A Black Hole Merger Every Week? LIGO And Virgo Are Back!
Notice that you haven’t been hearing much about black holes crashing into each other recently? That’s because the world’s most sensitive gravitational wave hunters have been offline for the last year.
Well, they're back now, with enough upgrades that they should be capable of finding a black hole merger every week, not to mention more colliding neutron stars, and maybe, just maybe, black holes eating neutron stars.
Watch the video here:
And in case you missed it, I had a fantastic conversation with Meteorite Man Geoff Notkin, newly elected president of the National Space Society.
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Amazing how fast things move! Just 4 years ago, hadn’t detected one. Now gravitational wave detections 4 years later look like now being “routine”. Soon it will go from detecting them once a week, to once a day.
Yeah, it's pretty impressive how quickly this whole field is moving forward.