Visible light search for gravitational waves black hole merger comes up empty

Last week an international team of scientists announced that they had made history by directly detecting gravitational waves. In light of those findings, a second team has attempted to detect the burst of visible light given off by the source of the waves – two merging black holes. The results were disappointing, but could help future attempts at imaging the source of gravitational waves.

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• Harvard-Smithsonian
• Black hole
• Light

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