LIGO Sees Smallest Black Hole Binary Yet

Sky & Telescope ^ | November 16, 2017 | Camille M. Carlisle

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

On November 15th, five months after the spacetime ripples jiggled LIGO’s instruments, astronomers announced the detection of their sixth gravitational-wave discovery, which is the fifth from the merger of two black holes. The event, GW170608, came from the union of the smallest black holes scientists have yet “seen” using this technique.

The waves hit LIGO at 02:01:16 Universal Time on June 8th, during the project’s second observing run (November 30th to August 25th). Their passage triggered the alarm at the site in Livingston, Louisiana, but the detector in Hanford, Washington, was under routine maintenance and had its alert system turned off. Even with the ongoing tinkering, the Hanford interferometer detected GW170608, too.

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And what in the hell is dark energy & dark matter?
(Aside from magic that makes calculations work)

And when you inject them into an equation of regular matter, they destroy the equation itself so you have to use predictive analysis to judge how it would have come out....

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

They forgot to mention that the “smallest black hole” in existence is the one where Maxine Waters claimed she had a brain.

It evaporated due to Hawking radiation in about 15 femtoseconds.