Gravitational Waves were only first observed in 2015, captured via instruments at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory. This is going to change the way we look at physics forever, as soon we’ll be able to draw a line from gravitational wave events back to their sources. But soon they may build an observatory that can see much, much more.
00:00Gravitational waves were only first observed in 2015, captured by instruments at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory.
00:11Universe Today reports this is going to change the way we look at physics forever, as soon we'll be able to draw a line from gravitational wave events back to their sources.
00:19At this point, astrophysicists know that gravitational wave events can happen when binary black holes or binary neutron stars merge.
00:26But they say there are likely many other sources where gravitational waves might come from, but they are simply under the threshold of what our instrumentation can detect.
00:34But since that first observation in 2015, new instruments are being developed, and it will allow us to detect magnitudes more gravitational wave data than before, including ancient gravitational waves, some that were produced only fractions of a second after the Big Bang.
00:48Understanding gravitational waves would be an entirely new way to look at the universe, which is why experts are now planning the construction of a massive 2.5 million kilometer wide gravitational wave detecting observational array in space, called LISA Max.
01:02It could help us detect many more objects in the universe, far below our current thresholds, giving us a better understanding of the underlying causes of gravitational waves and astrophysics as a whole.
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