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What I didn't understand after reading the article is how do they separate out a set of waves for one specific thing vs. the many other objects sending out wave
by yellow_postit 11y ago
What I didn't understand after reading the article is how do they separate out a set of waves for one specific thing vs. the many other objects sending out waves. Is it just that the set of blackholes are the strongest set of waves and thus the ones we can detect?
- bzbarsky 11y agoThat, and the high frequency. For example, the Earth orbiting the Sun produces gravitational waves at a frequency that's about (factors of 2 and pi here and there) the orbital frequency; order of 1e-8 Hz. The black holes were producing 250Hz waves if I read the article right.