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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.
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01/15/2020 4:25:09 PM PST
by
laplata
(The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: fruser1
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posted on
01/15/2020 4:26:01 PM PST
by
Empireoftheatom48
(WWG1WGA! Epstein did not kill himself! Eric Ciaramella, ERIC CIARAMELLA, ERICCIARAMELLA!)
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.)
To: Repeal The 17th
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posted on
01/15/2020 4:27:18 PM PST
by
Eddie01
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.)
To: BenLurkin
I suspect that the movements of one Michael Moore have something to do with this.
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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.)
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
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laplata
(The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: BenLurkin
I was ramping up my homemade Warp Drive when this happened.
Messed everything up and now I’m back to square one.
To: laplata
It would put us out of our misery winter of discontent.
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posted on
01/15/2020 4:32:01 PM PST
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BipolarBob
(DNC: The party of pernicious knids, wangdoodles and hornswogglers.)
To: fruser1
Looked that up. Interesting. Good guess.
Freepers ares so damn smart.
To: Old Yeller
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posted on
01/15/2020 4:33:30 PM PST
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: Old Yeller
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01/15/2020 4:36:18 PM PST
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rfp1234
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.
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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!)
To: Kickass Conservative
!tghir ton s’gninhtemoS .noos dexif ti teg ,lleW
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posted on
01/15/2020 4:36:39 PM PST
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
Betelgeuse went supernova.
That or there’s a disturbance in the Force.
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posted on
01/15/2020 4:36:45 PM PST
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MeganC
(There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
To: BenLurkin
To: null and void
Transcendental dieting. Ommmmmmmmm.
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posted on
01/15/2020 4:39:01 PM PST
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frank ballenger
(End vote harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
01/15/2020 4:41:15 PM PST
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timestax
To: BenLurkin
Space gas = Intergalactic farts?
To: timestax
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01/15/2020 4:41:41 PM PST
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timestax
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