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I don’t understand this comment... It’s true that the first event occurred after only two days but ligo have 11 events over two running periods at this point.
by Blackbeard_ 8y ago
I don’t understand this comment... It’s true that the first event occurred after only two days but ligo have 11 events over two running periods at this point.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gravitational_wave_observations https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gravitational_wave_o...
- bsder 8y agoI was under the impression from an interview that the first event that LIGO caught was held up so long before release because it was such a stupidly rare occurrence.
- bjelkeman-again 8y agoEven as there are eleven observed events so far, that is from 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe [1]. So at 100 billion stars per galaxy [2] a guesstimate is that we are talking about 200 billion trillion stars. Seems even divided by eleven it seems pretty rare. (Not sure if the detector can “see” all those stars though.) [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe [2] https://www.livescience.com/56634-how-many-stars-are-in-the-universe.html https://www.livescience.com/56634-how-many-stars-are-in-the-...