Aug 17 2017
On August 17 2017, there was an observed collision of stars that caused a “ripple effect” of space/time due to gravitational wave fluctuations. Could this be the cause of variations in the observed Universe? Could this be the cause of the “Berenst#in” Bears problem?
Around 130 million years ago, two dead stars violently collided and set off a sequence of events that, over the last two months, have whipped astronomers on Earth into an absolute frenzy.
At press conferences held across continents, scientists today announced the first detection of gravitational waves created by two neutron starssmashing into each other.
First theorized by Albert Einstein in 1916, gravitational waves are kinks or distortions in the fabric of space-time caused by extremely violent cosmic events. Until now, all confirmed detections involved a deadly dance between two black holes, which leave no visible signature on the sky.