Scientists Have Detected Gravitational Waves Again
http://gizmodo.com/scientists-have-detected-gravitational-waves-again-1782024611
LIGO’s second gravitational wave signal came just three months after the first, on December 26th. Again, it’s the result of the spinning dance of a binary black hole pair on the brink of merging, although this duo weighed only 8 and 14 solar masses. When they coalesced at a distance of 1.4 billion light years, they created a black hole 21 times the mass of the sun, while transforming another sun’s worth of mass into a burst of gravitational energy.
The discovery was announced this afternoon at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in San Diego, CA, and has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.