Hope no one has posted on this. This is the first I'm reading of it.


Burst of Gravitational Waves Hit Earth But Scientists Don’t Know Where It’s Coming From

On January 14, astronomers detected a split-second burst of gravitational waves … but researchers don’t know where this burst came from.

Gravitational waves can be caused by the collision of massive objects, such as two black holes or two neutron stars as shown in a new scientific publication. However, these impact-generated bursts are typically longer and occur as a series of waves that change in frequency over time. In contrast, the new signal is a burst and not a series of waves.

It’s also possible that this signal was just noise in the data from the detector. However, this burst of gravitational waves was found by all three LIGO detectors: one in Washington state, one in Louisiana and one in Italy. So it’s a genuine signal.

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In addition to this, on the website's FB page for this event I noticed this comment:

"What I caught on Allsky at time of wave hit" (video).

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