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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 2016
Page
3
A global team using the LIGO observatory detected a gravitational wave from colliding black holes 1.3 billion light years away. The signal, confirmed with strong odds and announced at a news conference, promises future discoveries and a new era in astronomy.
Szabolcs Marka of Columbia University, an astrophysicist on the discovery team, notes that focusing on the skies initially meant missing the music and that the skies will never be the same.
Scientists describe gravitational waves as faint ripples from violent events. The waves observed originate from a merger of two black holes 1.3 billion light years away, depicted as a mesh net being stretched to illustrate the distortion in space and time.
Space-time blends time with three spatial dimensions to map the universe. General relativity links gravity to mass bending space-time, while dense objects such as black holes or neutron stars merging unleash immense gravitational effects.
A global team of 1004 scientists used audio like recordings of spacetime ripples to confirm a gravitational wave. They tested false data injection, found no signs of manipulation, and had results peer reviewed and published in Physical Review Letters.
Astronomers spent nearly five months reviewing the discovery since Sept. 14, ruling out Earth bound interference and noise. They spect more waves to ensure accuracy and anticipate more detections, with upgrades to hear fainter signals from distant sources.
An international team reports that a $1.1 billion set of instruments detected a faint gravitational wave last September from two merging black holes. The signal, a single chirp, confirms a historic moment allowing astronomers to observe the universe in action and “hear” cosmic events.
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