Gravitational Waves were only first observed in 2015, captured via instruments at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory. This is going to change the way we look at physics forever, as soon we’ll be able to draw a line from gravitational wave events back to their sources. But soon they may build an observatory that can see much, much more.
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00:00Gravitational waves were only first observed in 2015, captured by instruments at the Laser
00:08Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory.
00:12Universe Today reports this is going to change the way we look at physics forever, as soon
00:15we'll be able to draw a line from gravitational wave events back to their sources.
00:20At this point, astrophysicists know that gravitational wave events can happen when binary black holes
00:24or binary neutron stars merge.
00:27But they say there are likely many other sources where gravitational waves might come from,
00:30but they are simply under the threshold of what our instrumentation can detect.
00:34But since that first observation in 2015, new instruments are being developed, and it
00:39will allow us to detect magnitudes more gravitational wave data than before, including ancient gravitational
00:45waves, some that were produced only fractions of a second after the Big Bang.
00:49Understanding gravitational waves would be an entirely new way to look at the universe,
00:53which is why experts are now planning the construction of a massive 2.5 million kilometer
00:57wide gravitational wave detecting observational array in space, called LISA-Max.
01:03It could help us detect many more objects in the universe, far below our current thresholds,
01:07giving us a better understanding of the underlying causes of gravitational waves and astrophysics
01:13as a whole.