Virgo Collaboration: 2 ideas worth knowing

2 ideas from Virgo Collaboration, each explained in a minute and credited to the original work. Free on Savvy.

Einstein predicted ripples in spacetime in 1916. We didn't detect one until 2015.
On 14 September 2015, twin detectors in Louisiana and Washington State picked up a fleeting distortion in spacetime from two black holes colliding 1.3 billion light-years away. It …
— LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
For the first time, astronomers watched the same cosmic event in gravity and in light
On 17 August 2017, LIGO and Virgo detected gravitational waves from two neutron stars colliding about 140 million light-years away. Within two seconds, a gamma-ray burst arrived, a…
— LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger

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