https://www.habitablezone.com/2017/10/12/a-new-ligo-announcement-coming-monday/ Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:37:11 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 https://www.habitablezone.com/2017/10/12/a-new-ligo-announcement-coming-monday/#comment-40384 RL Tue, 17 Oct 2017 02:09:12 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=67271#comment-40384 LIGO and VIRGO detected and located the collision of 2 neutron stars, optical observatories were able to quickly follow up and verify: 1) Yes gravity waves travel at the speed of light 2) Existing theories of Nucleo-synthesis are largely correct (the gold in your ring was mostly formed from the collision of neutron stars... ) 3) Einstein was a clever chap AND MORE... LIGO and VIRGO detected and located the collision of 2 neutron stars, optical observatories were able to quickly follow up and verify:
1) Yes gravity waves travel at the speed of light
2) Existing theories of Nucleo-synthesis are largely correct (the gold in your ring was mostly formed from the collision of neutron stars… )
3) Einstein was a clever chap
AND MORE…

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