For the second time in history, scientists have directly detected gravitational waves. And just like that, a new era of astronomy is underway.
Like the first gravitational wave detected, scientists believe that the signal was created by the collision of two black holes, albeit a completely different binary black hole system than the first.
Both signals were detected at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO). The LIGO team is made up of researchers from MIT and Caltech who led the design and construction and work together to operate the facility.
After ruling out any other possible source for the detected ripple, the LIGO team determined that the wave matched a single scenario among a bank of hundreds of thousands of known waveform possibilities: the collision of two black holes colliding at half the speed of light, 1.4 billion light years away.
“The first event was so beautiful that we almost couldn’t believe it. Now, the fact of having seen another gravitational wave proves that indeed we are observing a population of binary black holes in the universe. We […]
When I studied “dark matter and black holes” under professor Sean Carroll of the California Institute of Technology, I realized that the actual term “Black”” meant that we know nothing about it, and we still don’t. These speculations are therefor irrelevant in the larger picture of the universe of which 95% in “dark” or in other words unknown. It seems the “mainstream” astrophysicists only make hypotheses based upon more of a belief system similar to a religion, with few actual facts which they know nothing concrete about. They also totally ignore the electrical nature of the universe as is exposed in the “Electric Universe” theory which can explain the happenings within the Universe and explain that theory in a laboratory, and show how their theory can and does explain most things in the Universe in a much better and more scientific way with nothing “dark” or unknown, such as is being taught in our universities.