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An 'unknown' burst of gravitational waves just lit up Earth's detectors
CNET ^ | 01/14/2020 | Jackson Ryan

Posted on 01/15/2020 3:52:50 PM PST by 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.

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; betelgeuse; burkhardheim; burst; catastrophism; eqft; gammaraybursts; gravitational; gravitationalwaves; gravitophoton; heimtheory; neutronstars; quantumfieldtheory; quantumgravity; s200114f; science; stringtheory; supernova; thomasvanflandern; waves
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To: blackdog

Fireflies are scuba diving in your pool.


41 posted on 01/15/2020 4:25:09 PM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: fruser1

Wow, maybe so!


42 posted on 01/15/2020 4:26:01 PM PST by Empireoftheatom48 (WWG1WGA! Epstein did not kill himself! Eric Ciaramella, ERIC CIARAMELLA, ERICCIARAMELLA!)
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To: BenLurkin

Maybe something slammed into Uranus.


43 posted on 01/15/2020 4:26:27 PM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: Repeal The 17th

I had an S200114f once.


44 posted on 01/15/2020 4:27:18 PM PST by Eddie01
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To: BipolarBob

It would put us out of our misery.


45 posted on 01/15/2020 4:27:20 PM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: BenLurkin

I suspect that the movements of one Michael Moore have something to do with this.


46 posted on 01/15/2020 4:27:22 PM PST by 43north (Its hard to stop a man when he knows he's right and he keeps coming.)
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To: BenLurkin

I’m carrying sunglasses from now on. That makes me dizzy. lol


47 posted on 01/15/2020 4:29:02 PM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: BenLurkin

I was ramping up my homemade Warp Drive when this happened.
Messed everything up and now I’m back to square one.


48 posted on 01/15/2020 4:31:43 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Kill a Commie for your Mommy.)
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To: laplata
It would put us out of our misery winter of discontent.
49 posted on 01/15/2020 4:32:01 PM PST by BipolarBob (DNC: The party of pernicious knids, wangdoodles and hornswogglers.)
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To: fruser1

Looked that up. Interesting. Good guess.

Freepers ares so damn smart.


50 posted on 01/15/2020 4:32:18 PM PST by wgmalabama
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To: Old Yeller

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51 posted on 01/15/2020 4:33:30 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Old Yeller

Comet Butt-Giggity.


52 posted on 01/15/2020 4:36:18 PM PST by rfp1234
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To: frank ballenger
Someone used to joke that since the universe neither allows matter to be created or destroyed then if someone loses some body fat it goes to another person as weight gain.

Transcendental dieting.

53 posted on 01/15/2020 4:36:19 PM PST by null and void (The government wants to disarm us after 243 yrs 'cuz they plan to do things we would shoot them for!)
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To: Kickass Conservative

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54 posted on 01/15/2020 4:36:39 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Betelgeuse went supernova.

That or there’s a disturbance in the Force.


55 posted on 01/15/2020 4:36:45 PM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: BenLurkin

56 posted on 01/15/2020 4:37:45 PM PST by Major Matt Mason (Q = Quidam.)
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To: null and void
Transcendental dieting.

Ommmmmmmmm.

57 posted on 01/15/2020 4:39:01 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: BenLurkin

bttt


58 posted on 01/15/2020 4:41:15 PM PST by timestax
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To: BenLurkin

Space gas = Intergalactic farts?


59 posted on 01/15/2020 4:41:34 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures)
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To: timestax
th-freakouteyes
60 posted on 01/15/2020 4:41:41 PM PST by timestax
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