Gravitational Waves detected from second pair of colliding black holes
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo collaboration identify a second gravitational wave event in the data from Advanced LIGO detectors
Tag Archives: gravitational astronomy
Quick Questions on Virgo: “Can we identify the cosmic sources of gravitational waves?”
The information collected by the network of LIGO and Virgo instruments will provide a rather rough direction of the sources of gravitational waves in the sky, but follow-up observations will help to identify the location of gravitational wave sources
Quick Questions on Virgo: “Is Virgo a telescope observing the Universe?”
Virgo can be seen as a special kind of telescope, since it looks for phenomena happening far in the cosmos.
Quick Questions on Virgo: “Are there other instruments like Virgo?”
Today there is an initial network of gravitational wave interferometers around the world.
Quick Questions on Virgo: “What are gravitational waves?”
Gravitational waves are ripples in spacetime that propagate throughout the Universe at the speed of light.