Although it is not certain exactly what it is, has been, considered the researchers and the object of it as a ‘missing link’ between stars and black holes.
It’s like this: when the stars fade away and die, implode them, and it leaves a black hole behind. As a star of the same process of going through, they will leave a neutron star behind. The question is always whether, in terms of size of a step between the two, which was.
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That is a question we can now answer yes. The object in the collision is concerned, it is, therefore, or the smallest black hole ever detected, or the largest neutron star. “It is breaking a record,” explains the researcher, Vicky Kalogera from it. “We have decades and decades of waiting for the answer to this mystery.”
800 million light-years away
It is not a light impact on the earth, can be observed. This could mean that the black hole, the object is completely immersed. Due to the collision, at about 800 million light-years away from earth, a black hole with the mass of 25 times our sun’s.
The gravitational waves that were released, are seen by the LIGO and Virgo detectors. In 2015, the LIGO detectors for the first time, this kind of as golf. It gave the discoverers the Nobel prize in.
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What are gravitational waves?
Journalist Dutch astronomy journalist Govert Schilling put it this way:
“Albert Einstein wrote about the waves. It is, therefore, real evidence for his theory of relativity. You should keep in mind that space is not empty space. The space can stretch, bend, and contract, much like a trampoline. If you’re a heavy bowling ball on it, dent in the trampoline. Other items that you have in your garden it, such as, for example, of the marbles, to go to the ‘bump’ heendraaien.
That time allows for the oscillations and vibrations), we can now measure it. In the universe you can see with this type of vibration is, for example, if two black holes are spinning, which is done in the same way as the two bowling balls on a trampoline. Too hard and pops, to ensure the vibrations in the room, for instance, the explosion of a star, or the big bang. The vibrations are very small and can hardly be measured.”
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