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RE: Hunting gravitational waves with Virgo and LIGO

in #steemstem6 years ago

Yes, something as tiny as 0.0000000000000000001 meter, which demands a damned precise ruler. And this would be the wave connected to the merging of two black holes

I never knew black holes can actually merge. Is this phenomenon related to the "Binary Black Hole"?

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A binary exactly means a pair of black hole. They rotate around each other, and then accelerate because of their respective gravitational field. As a result, gravitational waves are emitted.