Ep. 688: What's Next? Looking Ahead to Season 17
Astronomy Cast
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The Enhanced Sensitivity of LIGO's New Observing Run
The new observing run of LIGO has come back online and now they're detecting multiple gravitational wave events every single day. There are colliding neutron stars and potential white dwarf neutron star collisions and black hole, black holes and every flavor in between. With all these upgrades, we're seeing a larger volume of space. We're seeing better, more sensitivity for the scale and size of what is out there. And just there's one story that we're just working on with the universe today.
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