(source: NASA)
''We have only seen spacetime like the surface on a calm ocean until now'', says Kip Thorne, co-founder of LIGO and the scientist who inspired the movie Interstellar. ''Now, we are seeing a storm!'' The ‘storm’, meaning the collision of the black holes, lasted for just 20 milliseconds. In that brief moment, it generated 50 times the power of all the stars in the Universe put together.
(from Guardian tweets)
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