An 'unknown' burst of gravitational waves just lit up Earth's detectors

CNET ^ | 01/14/2020 | Jackson Ryan

[BenLurkin]

Earth's gravitational wave observatories -- which hunt for ripples in the fabric of space-time -- just picked up something weird. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and Virgo detectors recorded an unknown or unanticipated "burst" of gravitational waves on Jan. 14.

The gravitational waves we've detected so far usually relate to extreme cosmic events, like two black holes colliding or neutron stars finally merging after being caught in a death spiral. Burst gravitational waves have not been detected before and scientists hypothesize they may be linked to phenomena such as supernova or gamma ray bursts, producing a tiny "pop" when detected by the observatories.

This unanticipated burst has been dubbed, for now, S200114f, and was detected by the software that helped confirm the first detection of gravitational waves.

[griffin]

Maybe it was Pelosi’s ego deflating realizing she had to cough up the impeachment papers to Mitch.

[justa-hairyape]

Sure hope that’s not Apocolypse heading this way. He is never in a good mood. Lol.

[trebb]

It’s an anomaly caused by the magnetic poles wandering..it made me feel light-headed...

Who can I sue for allowing the earth to do things without human control?

[SunkenCiv]

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[AFreeBird]

Beetleguise (sp?) going Nova perhaps? Interesting hypothesis.

[Nateman]

Not detected before implies something close. The devices typically detect something hundreds of millions of light years away so you have a large volume of energetic events that get noticed. Something that needs to be close to be detected has a much smaller volume of probable events to draw from.

[Monkey Face]

Golly. What am I missing?

Better asked, what just missed us?

(OK. I’ll go back to sleep, now.)

;o]

‘Face

[MHGinTN]

My thoughts went there also ... that new female Doctor is rammin’ in the jimjam, and frippin’ in the crots wrong!

[Redcitizen]

Good thing I bailed on the series before The Doctor went female.

[SunkenCiv]

I could do without those bursts of gravitational waves first thing in the morning.

[Monkey Face]

(Got any ones?)

[Theophilus]

[SunkenCiv]

:^)

http://www.resourcefulmanager.com/wp-content/uploads/negativewavespng.png

[SunkenCiv]

(^:

[SunkenCiv]

Never play "pull my finger" with this guy:

Burkhard Heim's quantum theory

[laplata]

Lol

Wow, that’s an intriguing photo.

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, I agree, and I wish I had more info about it.

[steve86]

And just how do they know that exactly?

These are the only known cosmic bodies with sufficient mass, density, and acceleration to create gravitational waves of this strength.

Have I missed reading something somewhere?

Yes. Lots.

[steve86]

“Gravity waves travel the speed of light according to Einstein”

And past LIGO observations proved him right.