A new analysis in the journal Nature by Krzysztof Belczynski predicts that when LIGO reaches full sensitivity in 3 to 4 years it will see Black Hole mergers in the 20 to 80 solal mass range about once every 9 hours , assuming the Black Holes came from dead stars and not from the first nanosecond of the Big Bang , if some Black Holes are primordial it would happen more often. Since it's pretty easy to determine from how far away the gravitational waves came and with at least a thousand new data points a year we should be able map out the entire universe, including both dark matter and regular matter, with unprecedented detail.
Unfortunately Belczynski also predicts we'll only see about one collision between 2 neutron stars a year because of their much weaker gravitational waves. Oh well you can't have everything. 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.
