Scientists have JUST published this new observation. On January 4th, 2017 they detected the merger of two black holes 3 billion light-years away. This marks the furthest detection they've been...
========== I've come to Caltech because there is a
brand new gravitational wave discovery.Let's go find out what it is.Can we talk about the discovery, Rana?
-Yeah.Can I-- I want to sit on one of my black holes.
-Alright.If you notice, this one's a big oneand that one's a little one.
-This one is a little one.
-Yeah.I-I always feel like I'm the most excited out of everybody.Really?
-Yeah.Because excited when nothing's happening.
Cleaning some dust off a piece of glassand it still seems exciting, because I think
this is the key piece of glass in oursystem and I'm just clean dust off of it.
How cool is that?On January 4th,just like a few hours after midnight.
Boom. We got another signal much like thefirst signal we found in ...