Posted on Sep 8, 2020
APOD: 2020 September 8 - GW190521: Unexpected Black Holes Collide
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Good morning, Rallypoint. Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is titled "GW190521: Unexpected Black Holes Collide." Gravitational waves are created by moving masses, much as electromagnetic waves are created by moving charges. But because gravity is the weakest of the four fundamental forces in physics (the others being the electromagnetic, weak nuclear, and strong nuclear), gravitational waves are exceedingly small. A strong gravitational wave will produce displacements on the order of 1000 times smaller than the diameter of a single proton (0 [login to see] 000000001 meters, to be exact). The term 'gravitational wave astronomy' was born with the advent of this technology. Waves of this strength will be produced by very massive systems undergoing large accelerations, like two orbiting black holes that are about to merge into one. That's where today's APOD picks up.
On May 21, 2019, the science teams at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) and the European Virgo Interferometer observed a gravitational wave signal 17 billion light years away towards the constellation Coma Berenices. This event has been dubbed GW190521. The two black holes that created this signal (66 and 85 solar masses, respectively) are the largest progenitor masses observed to date. The resulting black hole had a mass equivalent to 142 times that of the Sun, making this the first clear detection of an intermediate-mass black hole. The remaining 9 solar masses were radiated as energy in the form of gravitational waves detected by LIGO and Virgo. I wonder what we will learn now that we have tools to "see" that aren't dependent on light?
On May 21, 2019, the science teams at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) and the European Virgo Interferometer observed a gravitational wave signal 17 billion light years away towards the constellation Coma Berenices. This event has been dubbed GW190521. The two black holes that created this signal (66 and 85 solar masses, respectively) are the largest progenitor masses observed to date. The resulting black hole had a mass equivalent to 142 times that of the Sun, making this the first clear detection of an intermediate-mass black hole. The remaining 9 solar masses were radiated as energy in the form of gravitational waves detected by LIGO and Virgo. I wonder what we will learn now that we have tools to "see" that aren't dependent on light?
APOD: 2020 September 8 - GW190521: Unexpected Black Holes Collide
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Belated thank you my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy illustration Picture of the Day (AIPOD) for September 8, 2020 entitled "GW190521: Unexpected Black Holes Collide."
Image: GW190521 - Unexpected Black Holes Collide - Illustration Credit - Raúl Rubio (Virgo Valencia Group, The Virgo Collaboration)
APOD Background
"Explanation: How do black holes like this form? The two black holes that spiraled together to produce the gravitational wave event GW190521 were not only the most massive black holes ever seen by LIGO and VIRGO so far, their masses -- 66 and 85 solar masses -- were unprecedented and unexpected. Lower mass black holes, below about 65 solar masses are known to form in supernova explosions. Conversely, higher mass black holes, above about 135 solar masses, are thought to be created by very massive stars imploding after they use up their weight-bearing nuclear-fusion-producing elements. How such intermediate mass black holes came to exist is yet unknown, although one hypothesis holds that they result from consecutive collisions of stars and black holes in dense star clusters. Featured is an illustration of the black holes just before collision, annotated with arrows indicating their spin axes. In the illustration, the spiral waves indicate the production of gravitational radiation, while the surrounding stars highlight the possibility that the merger occurred in a star cluster. Seen last year but emanating from an epoch when the universe was only about half its present age (z ~ 0.8), black hole merger GW190521 is the farthest yet detected, to within measurement errors."
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Image: GW190521 - Unexpected Black Holes Collide - Illustration Credit - Raúl Rubio (Virgo Valencia Group, The Virgo Collaboration)
APOD Background
"Explanation: How do black holes like this form? The two black holes that spiraled together to produce the gravitational wave event GW190521 were not only the most massive black holes ever seen by LIGO and VIRGO so far, their masses -- 66 and 85 solar masses -- were unprecedented and unexpected. Lower mass black holes, below about 65 solar masses are known to form in supernova explosions. Conversely, higher mass black holes, above about 135 solar masses, are thought to be created by very massive stars imploding after they use up their weight-bearing nuclear-fusion-producing elements. How such intermediate mass black holes came to exist is yet unknown, although one hypothesis holds that they result from consecutive collisions of stars and black holes in dense star clusters. Featured is an illustration of the black holes just before collision, annotated with arrows indicating their spin axes. In the illustration, the spiral waves indicate the production of gravitational radiation, while the surrounding stars highlight the possibility that the merger occurred in a star cluster. Seen last year but emanating from an epoch when the universe was only about half its present age (z ~ 0.8), black hole merger GW190521 is the farthest yet detected, to within measurement errors."
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