BREAKING -
Ladies and Gentlemen - We have made the first confirmed detection of intermediate mass black holes with LIGO and Virgo detectors.
An honor of a lifetime to be given a leading role in this historic discovery. #GW190521
Ladies and Gentlemen - We have made the first confirmed detection of intermediate mass black holes with LIGO and Virgo detectors.
An honor of a lifetime to be given a leading role in this historic discovery. #GW190521
With about 142 times the mass of our Sun and signal from half-way across the universe, this new discovery breaks all many cosmic records!
Image: Deborah Ferguson / MAYA Collaboration
Image: Deborah Ferguson / MAYA Collaboration
This is discovery a milestone in modern astronomy and a personal milestone after six years of intensive research of hunting these elusive black holes.
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The discovery and its implications were published today in the Physical Review Letter and the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Both papers are open access. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as we did writing it!
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.384…
journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/1…
Both papers are open access. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as we did writing it!
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.384…
journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/1…
With this new discovery, we find Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity works incredible at even such extreme gravity stages.
Here's a neat visual on #GW190521 by solving Einstein's equations on supercomputers (Credit: Deborah Ferguson)
Here's a neat visual on #GW190521 by solving Einstein's equations on supercomputers (Credit: Deborah Ferguson)
