A tiny crystal device could boost gravitational wave detectors to reveal the birth cries of black holes
- Written by David Blair, Emeritus Professor, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery, OzGrav, University of Western Australia
NSF / LIGO / Sonoma State University / A Simonnet, Author providedIn 2017, astronomers witnessed the birth of a black hole for the first time. Gravitational wave detectors picked up the ripples in spacetime caused by two neutron stars colliding to form the black hole, and other telescopes then observed the resulting explosion.
But the real...





