Trying to picture two objects that massive rotating that quickly... wow. As amazing as detecting the gravitational waves are, I'm actually more interested in what happens when those two black holes collide... is the resulting explosion entirely contained in the event horizon or is there any possibility that matter/energy can escape due to the high energies involved?
On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 5:14 PM, Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Principal, High Performance Coders > Visiting Senior Research Fellow [email protected] > Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpcoders.com.au > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
