Interesting Astronomical Article

[Newt]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/02/11/cosmic-breakthrough-physicists-detect-gravitational-waves-from-violent-black-hole-merger/?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_evening

 

Physicists detect gravitational waves from violent black-hole merger

 

The article is very good and several links are even better.

[Chris Plumb]

Nice one, Newt - all over the press here too...

 

C.

[corydoras]

Mr Einstien proved correct one more time.

[Andrew]

And every gravitational wave that hits the Earth moves us a little further away from our Star, the Sun ! ! ! How long before we are in a dangerous position that the Earth is in danger of dying on us !! :bye2:

 

 

It's 300 million light years away and has a mass 21 billion times that of the sun. So times this amount by 300 million and thats how far it is from us !!!!

a unit of astronomical distance equivalent to the distance that light travels in one year, which is 9.4607 × 1012 km (nearly 6 million million miles).
Mind boggling, and has a mass 21 billion times that of the sun.

 

Hey thanks to good old Google,

Edited February 12, 2016 by Andrew