Tuesday 17 December 2019

gravitational waves - What will we learn from further LIGO events?


LIGO announced a third gravitational wave detection today. The news outlets didn't comment on significant differences between this one and previous detections. Did this third event teach us anything new about the cosmos?


More generally, what do we expect to learn from further gravitational wave detections by LIGO, now that we have confirmed that gravitational waves exist and conform to our previous expectations?




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