https://briankoberlein.com/2015/09/18/two-black-holes-in-a-gravitational-dance/ Brian Koberlein Tue, 19 Feb 2019 19:13:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.3 https://briankoberlein.com/2015/09/18/two-black-holes-in-a-gravitational-dance/#comment-3088 Mon, 21 Sep 2015 02:37:13 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5245#comment-3088 Couldn’t we test our idea of gravitational waves here more then anywhere else? We’ve got a 5 year period so we should pick up changes in that period. The masses involved are extreme and a merger in a “few hundred thousand” orbits doesn’t mean much at all on a astronomical scale. It basically means that those black holes are very close.

]]> https://briankoberlein.com/2015/09/18/two-black-holes-in-a-gravitational-dance/#comment-3082 Fri, 18 Sep 2015 18:03:55 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5245#comment-3082 It depends on what you mean by “now.”

]]> https://briankoberlein.com/2015/09/18/two-black-holes-in-a-gravitational-dance/#comment-3081 Fri, 18 Sep 2015 17:32:13 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5245#comment-3081 If the duo is 3,5 billion years away, would they have already merged by now but the light didn’t reach us yet?

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