This creative illustration reveals the gravitational waves that ripple out from two neutron stars colliding with one another. This collision additionally causes bursts of gamma rays to be shot out seconds after the gravitational waves.
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This creative illustration reveals the gravitational waves that ripple out from two neutron stars colliding with one another. This collision additionally causes bursts of gamma rays to be shot out seconds after the gravitational waves.
NSF/LIGO/Sonoma State College/A. Simonnet
A pivotal week in Corey Grey’s life started with a powwow in Alberta and culminated with a bit of historical past: the first-ever detection of gravitational waves from the collision of two neutron stars. Corey was on the graveyard shift at LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory in Hanford, Washington, when the historic sign got here. This episode, Corey talks concerning the discovery, the “Gravitational Wave Grass Dance Particular” that preceded it and the way he bought his Blackfoot title. (encore)
This episode was produced by Devan Schwartz, edited by Gabriel Spitzer and fact-checked by Abē Levine.
