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In Milestone, Scientists Detect Waves In Space-Time As Black Holes Collide

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  In Milestone, Scientists Detect Waves In Space-Time As Black Holes Collide Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-02-11 09:46 -0600
    Re: In Milestone, Scientists Detect Waves In Space-Time As Black Holes Collide jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-02-11 18:57 +0000

#552237 — In Milestone, Scientists Detect Waves In Space-Time As Black Holes Collide

FromSam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com>
Date2016-02-11 09:46 -0600
SubjectIn Milestone, Scientists Detect Waves In Space-Time As Black Holes Collide
Message-ID<042dnVJPd6lyMSHLnZ2dnUU7-NkAAAAA@giganews.com>
In Milestone, Scientists Detect Waves In Space-Time As Black Holes Collide
> http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/02/11/466286219/in-milestone-scientists-detect-waves-in-space-time-as-black-holes-collide


> According to a paper published in the journal Physical Review
> Letters, the two black holes were each roughly 30 times the mass of
> the sun. They merged some 1.3 billion light years from the Earth. The
> waves were generated in the final moments before the black holes
> merged. The signal was brief but definitive.
>
> The measurements are dramatic proof that gravitational waves exist.
> The signal in the detector matches well with what's predicted by
> Einstein's original theory, according to Teukolsky, who was briefed
> on the results. It matches predictions of the ripples produced by two
> large black holes, in the final moments before they merge, swirling
> together at an enormous speed.
>


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Fromjimp@specsol.spam.sux.com
Date2016-02-11 18:57 +0000
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In reply to#552237
Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> In Milestone, Scientists Detect Waves In Space-Time As Black Holes Collide

How many more times are you going to cut and paste the same information?


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