RE: https://scicomm.xyz/@LIGO/116051346507662792
Did you know that witches.town, one of the first really popular Mastodon instances, used the sound of two black holes merging, registered by the @LIGO, as its notification sound?
And since eldritch.cafe intend to preserve its predecessor’s legacy, we still do the same.
Vandaag 10 jaar geleden https://sailing-dulce.nl/home/article-4778 #zwaartekrachtgolven #ligo #Virgo #turtles Woensdag 10-02-2016 Breaking news? Al een tijdje zoemt het rond in de wereld van kosmologen: verschillende detectors zouden de zwaartekrachtgolven geregistreerd hebben, die de algemene relativiteitstheorie van Einstein honderd jaar geleden voorspelde. Ik schreef er nogal eens over; voor het eerst vijf jaar geleden toen we met de boot in Ashkelon, Israël, lagen en bijvoorbeeld twee jaar geleden toen het..
"Exceptional tests of general relativity with GW250114" by @LIGO - Gravitational Wave #GW250114 detected over a year ago provided the clearest (best signal to noise) data yet on a black hole merger. The year that it took for #LIGO, Virgo & KAGRA to gather the data and write a peer-reviewed paper now yields results. It shows EVERY test that could be applied to Einstein's Relativity passed. These conditions were only theoretical in his time. https://ligo.org/exceptional-tests-of-general-relativity-with-gw250114/ #astronomy #physics #science
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LIGO Scientific Collaboration
Exceptional tests of general relativity with GW250114
Artistic visualization of the GW250114 event. [Image credit: LIGO Scientific Collaboration/Sonoma State University/A. Simmonet]
In January 2025, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration observed an exceptionally loud gravitational-wave signal: GW250114. It stands out as the clearest one observed thus far, about three times louder than the first detection in 2015. The signal matches what is expected when two black holes of nearly equal mass and low spin spiral together, collide, and settle into a single, larger black hole.
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Dubbele kosmische explosie geeft geboorte aan ongekende ‘superkilonova’
In een bizarre wending bracht een supernova twee neutronensterren voort die samensmolten tot een krachtige kilonova.
#AT2025ulz #kilonova #LIGO #superkilonova #supernova #zwaartekrachtgolf
https://www.kuuke.nl/dubbele-kosmische-explosie-geeft-geboorte-aan-ongekende-superkilonova/
1/2 #Physics and #Astrophysics in #TheGap Dept : We've gotten much better at pushing analyses wrt astrophysical data. A lot of that is #JWST, #LIGO and others...so the instruments. But of course also techniques enabled by those...
Techniques also advance with the #ParticleAccelerators we have currently. But there are still places they cannot go and theories they cannot test. There is always going to be mismatch between the bounds of where theory can go and what we can test right now...
I don't know why I find this #LIGO graph so sexy 🔩...
https://media.ligo.northwestern.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Stellar_Graveyard_GWTC-4_mass_gap_26Aug2025-1-scaled.png
would it qualify as a case of #space_porn? 🤣
Today, the international LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration celebrates the successful completion of its 4th observing run (O4), marking another major step forward in the exploration of the gravitational wave universe. The run relied on coordinated observations and analyses by teams across the world.
https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo20251118
#physics #LIGO #Virgo #KAGRA #gravitationalWaves #science #news
#KnowledgeBit: #LIGO, Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, is the world's largest gravitational wave observatory.
LIGO is designed to detect gravitational waves released when two neutron stars or black holes spiral into each other or when a stellar core collapses and causes a Type II supernova.
Schwarze Löcher mit doppelter Kollision. Gravitationswellen liefern bisher beste Belege für eine hierarchische Verschmelzung. #LIGO #Gravitationswellen #SchwarzeLoecher #SchwarzesLoch #Astronomie
https://www.scinexx.de/news/kosmos/kollisions-kombi-bei-schwarzen-loechern/
Pair of Distinct Black Hole Mergers Sheds New Light on Nature of Their Formation and Evolution
The mergers, measured one month apart in 2024 by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration, advance scientific understanding of the nature of black hole formation and fundamental physics.
(26 Sep) Daylight Savings Time Is So Bad, It’s Messing With Our View of the Cosmos
And it’s not clear if anything can be done about the problem.
https://s.faithcollapsing.com/w9k72
Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/06g9x
#gravitational-wave #ligo #radio-astronomy #space-&-spaceflight
(26 Sep) Daylight Savings Time Is So Bad, It’s Messing With Our View of the Cosmos https://s.faithcollapsing.com/w9k72 Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/06g9x #gravitational-wave #ligo #radio-astronomy #space-&-spaceflight
Nature Physics Editorial: a look back at ten years of gravitational wave science
Did you know you can follow LIGO here @LIGO ?
They are posting a thread of cake photos that celebrate the 10th anniversary of the first gravitational wave detection! 🎂
https://scicomm.xyz/@LIGO/115232038292672011
#Science #Space #Astronomy #LIGO #Gravity #GravitationalWaves #GW10Years
Shortwave podcast:
"The chirp heard ‘round the world: 10 years of catching the gravitational wave"
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/17/nx-s1-5536965/space-science-sound-black-hole
(12 min audio, transcript included)
This was a good one!
LIGO’s 10th anniversary gift confirms Hawking’s theorem
10 years ago, we measured our first black hole-black hole merger in gravitational waves.
10 years later, we can measure them so well we confirmed the Hawking area theorem.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#space #astro #physics #LIGO #hawking
LIGO's 10th anniversary gift c...
"[T]he LIGO detectors have captured the clearest merger signal ever recorded, GW250114 [and] was able to draw two spectacular conclusions. First, it confirmed that the nature of the merging objects is consistent with that of Kerr (spinning) black holes. Second, it convincingly verified the area theorem formulated by Stephen Hawking in 1971, which asserts that the total surface area of black hole horizons cannot decrease in time.
«En el aniversario del LIGO, se teme por su futuro»
Dennis Overbye en The New York Times
El párrafo en el que se mencionan las tonterías de Trump es cortito, no os preocupéis. El resto es la interesante historia de #Ligo
