LIGO gears up to peer inside exploded stars

• Autores: Leah Crane
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3112, 2017, pág. 11
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Prepare for a big wave -- a wave of gravitational waves. A mass of predictions from the latest meeting of the American Physical Society in Washington DC is shedding light on what's next for the LIGO experiment. With two sets of colliding black holes in its net and another possible pair in its second run, LIGO, the world's first successful gravitational wave detector, is ready to see the unexpected. Like insects on the surface of a pond, masses create ripples in space-time when they move. When massive objects like black holes accelerate, those ripples -- gravitational waves -- are powerful enough that one can detect the contractions in space-time using LIGO's twin detectors in Washington and Louisiana.