Relax To The Peaceful Sounds Of Two Black Holes Colliding

This theory was also almost proved by Eddington in the year 1919 when it was discovered that the light from the stars bent as it made its way around the sun and when this theory was proved, the gravitational waves due to the distortion in the space-time continuum was also closely proved.

“I think we’re opening a window on the universe”.

“As the black holes spiral closer and closer in together, the frequency of the gravitational waves increases”, the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) said.

MIT physicist Matthew Evans said, “We’re actually hearing them go thump in the night”.

Once upon a time, an indescribably long distance away, two black holes collided and merged.

“Before we started detecting gravitational waves, looking out at the universe was like watching an orchestra without any sound”. “The ability to detect them has the potential to revolutionize astronomy”. The ripple created was about a billionth of the width of an atom when it reached Earth, so small that Einstein thought it would be too subtle to ever be detected.

The U.S.-based Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) announced its ground-breaking discovery of gravitational waves on Thursday, which fulfilled the prediction of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity one century ago.

That’s just my opinion, of course; Gonzalez described the frequency-shifted version as a “chirp”. “We are not only going to be seeing the universe, we are going to be listening to it”. “The skies will never be the same”. “We did it”, declared David Reitze of Caltech, LIGO’s executive director, during a Washington, D.C. press conference.

In a statement provided to TheAtlantic News, How can we use them to explore the mysteries of the cosmos?

“For this binary black hole system, it made a distinctive, rising ‘whoooop!’ sound”, said Matthew Evans, an assistant professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Eventually, observations of a variety of black hole events could provide more precise estimates of cosmic distances, he said. Not only has the discovery validated Einstein’s theory of relativity, it has also opened doors for a newer understanding of quantum physics.