A fourth gravitational wave has been detected
A fourth gravitational wave has been detected — and we've pinpointed its location better than ever before https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/27/16368860/gravitational-waves-ligo-virgo-three-observatories-fourth-detection …pic.twitter.com/EsTlR6wv56
this is cool. Now have 3 gravitational wave detection sites across the globe. That means we can better pin down the source of the waves.https://twitter.com/LIGO/status/913078532200370176 …
4th #GravitationalWave detection #GW170814
For the first time by the 3-detector LIGO-Virgo global network
More info: http://www.virgo-gw.eu/#news pic.twitter.com/iI7LTxmb7W
This is the 1st time a #gravitationalwave detection was observed by observatories, located thousands of miles apart http://bit.ly/2hwbKge pic.twitter.com/KGnaKXFo14
The observation was a merger of 2 #blackholes, and the #gravitationalwave event has been designated “GW170814.” More http://bit.ly/2hwbKge pic.twitter.com/UssSQrOkYR
Two black holes merged almost 2 billion years ago and we have the receipts http://bit.ly/2xxfIvp pic.twitter.com/rpebYLzGpA
Beautiful new detection of two merging black holes that shook the entire Universe. Now seen and confirmed across two continents!https://twitter.com/ligo/status/913078532200370176 …
We do have a much better idea where these latest merging black holes are, though, thanks to a new European experimenthttps://twitter.com/smorrell/status/913080897221558272 …
This is the first (published?) #GravitationalWave that @ego_virgo has seen! #GW170814pic.twitter.com/GjGdMCGriS
graphic shows how 3 detectors pinpoint the source of the gravitational waves much, much better than 2https://twitter.com/ego_virgo/status/913079590754684928 …
these announcements are going to become commonplace. But it's still cool we can detect ripples in space-time ...
especially considering that the waves formed more than a billion years ago by the collision of a couple of black holes
And they so happened to pass through the Earth this August (you couldn't have noticed). And we had the right machines turned on to listen.
The result of A LOT pf work by @ligo and @ego_virgo: only 6 weeks between the detection and the announcement. And so many things to check!https://twitter.com/PhysRevLett/status/913082645550174208 …
And there's even more amazing facts on our #GW170814 fact sheet - you can download it at http://www.ligo.org/detections/images/GW170814-FactSheet.pdf …pic.twitter.com/HYk8UcGuAt
Time for an #inspiraltoast to the detection of #GW170814 and the future of our @LIGO 'ego_virgo #gravitationalwaves detector network!pic.twitter.com/rruKMeQLdA