We Could Detect Black Hole Collisions All The Time With This Amazing New Method
Listen carefully.
MICHELLE STARR 13 APR 2018
Black holes could be making cataclysmic collisions across the Universe every few minutes. Unfortunately, the aftermath is too faint to alert our current detection technology.
But a clever new technique could allow us to "hear" these collisions by finding their signals in the background static that LIGO-Virgo's detectors are picking up all the time.