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submitted 11 months ago by btaf45@lemmy.world to c/astronomy@mander.xyz
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[-] holycrap@lemm.ee 11 points 11 months ago
[-] recursive_recursion@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

I thought that too lol😂

[-] btaf45@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

[More recent work has seen pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) such as NANOGrav successfully identify a specific flavor of gravitational wave known as the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB). The SGWB is similar in concept to the cosmic microwave background—a consistent glow from the early universe that astronomers can see as a series of microwaves coming from all directions at once.]

First time I've heard of this concept.

[-] DanglingFury@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

The inflation is transitory

[-] eskimofry@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's still shaking my money loose from my wallet

[-] niktemadur@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Perfect timing, as just this past week I've been wondering about these low-frequency gravitational waves that were announced with a splash last summer, then I heard nothing, that is until now.

It takes a while to go through the data and find specific parameters you're looking for. This is radio astronomy, using data from antenna telescopes all over the world. For comparison in a similar type of project, it took two years to crunch the numbers from the Event Horizon Telescope and resolve a fuzzy image of the supermassive black hole in M87.

this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2023
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