Fantastic news! On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 11:16:57AM -0500, John Clark wrote: > On Sept. 14 at 4am the LIGO detector in Livingston Louisiana detected a > burst of gravitational waves, 7 milliseconds later the LIGO detector in > Hanford Washington detected the same thing. The possibility of this being > due to chance is vanishingly small. What they detected was 2 black holes > circling each other at 250 times a second, one was 36 times the mass of the > sun and the other 29 times. The entire signal only lasted for a fifth of a > second. > > http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/12/science/ligo-gravitational-waves-black-holes-einstein.html > > > John K Clark > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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