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.

[null and void]

And on the receiving end; nommm, nommmm, nommmmm...

[frank ballenger]

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

Moore: So I told myself I'm gonna go through with trying something new as my resolution. Sky diving. What harm could it do?

[Grimmy]

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

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That’s just the electronic vote machines transferring normal human votes to democrat.

[Blood of Tyrants]

[dfwgator]

Fluke Starbucker:
Jeepers! What is it, Augie Ben Doggie? Did you feel a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced?

Auggie Ben Doggie:
No, just a little headache.

[Nateman]

Heim EQFT predicts that gravitational waves travel at 4/3 the speed of light, so any light event is yet to come.

Remember those two neutron stars that collided? They were over 100 million light years away yet we got the gravity signal only a few seconds before the light got here, so that theory does not match the evidence.

By the way the blip was near the giant red star Betelgeuse . Gamma ray bursts pop out in a line along the stars axis of rotation. The pole of Betelgeuse is only a few degree off from pointing at us. Betelgeuse has dimmed more than usual recently so something very interesting is happening there.

[Leep]

Did someone say ripples?

[heavy metal]

bagster’s battle about Q on another thread...

[grey_whiskers]

Where’s Michael Moore?

[DouglasKC]

Maybe betalguese going supernova?

[BenLurkin]

[voicereason]

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.

And just how do they know that exactly? Have I missed reading something somewhere? Or, are we back on the hypothesis is concrete science kick again?

[Peter ODonnell]

I need a small, weak woman to hold me.

[laplata]

No more Global Warming.

[The Clemson Tiger]

OMG! Hardware Wars!

Haven’t seen that since college...

[crazydad]

This is the movie that got me hooked on Wagner. HARDWARE WARS.... Ogie be Doggie.

[CondorFlight]

“Maybe betalguese going supernova?”

That was my thought also. We’ll know, I guess, in a few years...

[beethovenfan]

I thought I felt something......

[bigbob]

And the next day Nadless was named impeachment manager...this cannot be coincidental.

[dfwgator]

“You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll kiss three bucks goodbye!”