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Originally Posted by photon
LIGO detects a 3rd black hole merger.
Today, the team behind the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is announcing the detection of a third black hole merger, the first from its second operational run. The merger shares some features with the previous ones: the black holes were bigger than expected, and their merger released a staggering amount of energy. But the LIGO team was also able to extract some information about the details of the collision and propagation of gravitational waves. These details tell us someting about the limits of general relativity and the history of the black holes themselves.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017...-on-gravitons/ |
I watched an interview this morning about this. They hinted that they are sitting on a ton of more observations that have yet to made public as they still doing the QA/QC on the results. It sounds like they are making observations every month, but are looking at upgrades that will let they make multiple observations a day.