New Recipe for Gravitational Waves Calls for Early Double Stars
Wednesday, June 22, 2016 - 15:01
in Astronomy & Space
Stir two massive stars into black holes, bake for 10 billion years, and combine. That's the recipe scientists have cooked up to produce the first detected gravitational waves spotted last September, and one that produces the most recent detection,too.
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