Gravitational Waves emerging from Black Hole not detected even after eleven

The world’s first such research has caused scientists to think about the universe in a different way.

According to Astronomy Magazine, physicists are rethinking what is known of black holes after a search conducted with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization’s (CSIRO) Parkes telescope has not turned up the background waves that had been expected in the presence of black hole collisions. Efforts to detect the cacophony of waves from black hole couples throughout the universe should be turning something up by now.

Scientists view the universe as being made up of a “fabric of space-time” and this corresponds to Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, published in 1916.

Researchers believe that the gravitational waves that pass through Earth and a millisecond pulsar apparently squeezes and stretches time and space, that changes the distance between each signal by roughly 10 meters changing the time the signals arrive.

Galaxies grow by merging and every large one is thought to have a supermassive black hole at its heart.

This is one of the first experiments that have run into a roadblock in one of Einstein’s theories.

“That is, we’ve attained our design sensitivity that should have produced the uncovering of gravitational waves, but it didn’t”. Particularly, gravitational waves are thought to have been generated during the Big Bang.

So why weren’t they found? Unfortunately-and much to the chagrin of scientists-this search has proven fruitless, despite the theory that this must be the reality.

When two galaxies merge, the black holes are drawn together and form an orbiting pair.

Astronomers expected to pick up the enigmatic waves rumbling out across the universe from galactic mergers – instead, crickets.

Although Einstein’s general theory of relativity has been confirmed in every other respect, gravitational waves remain its only unconfirmed prediction.

The team looked for gravitational waves by measuring the speed at which regular pulsar bursts reached Earth.

They also note that the failure to detect these waves via pulsar timing techniques has no implication on other research about higher frequency gravitational waves created by other cosmic events like neutron stars.

Dr. Ryan Shannon led the team that published their results in the journal Science. Any gravitational waves passing through the path of a pulsar’s radio signal would stretch and contract space-time in such a way as to affect the pulsar signal’s arrival time on Earth.

‘We were unable to hear nothing.

“In terms of gravitational waves, it seems to be all quiet on the cosmic front”.

Scientists are speculating how there could be a myriad reasons why these waves have not yet been detected, suspecting that black holes merge together very quickly, where there is only a small amount of time to generate gravitational waves.

“There could be gas surrounding the black holes that creates friction and carries away their energy, letting them come to the clinch quite quickly”, explains study co-author Paul Lasky.

Just because Shannon and his team didn’t detect gravitational waves doesn’t mean they don’t exist. Not even a whimper, ‘ Dr Shannon stated. Astronomers will also gain another leg up when the super-sensitive Square Kilometer Array telescope is brought into operation, with construction beginning sometime around 2018.