Thursday 3 October 2024

Signals from exotic new stars could hide in gravitational wave data

 


Image courtesy of Victor de Schwanberg / Science Photo Library

Joel Kontinen

A computer simulation suggests that some collisions between exotic, hypothetical stars would make space-time ripple with detectable waves.

What do you think about strange noises coming from space?

“Gravitational wave signals that seem to emanate from black hole collisions may actually come from the clashes of odd, exotic stars – which have been theorised but may or may not exist. If they do, then physicists will have to rethink their standard theories of gravity and particles.

For almost 60 years, researchers have been thinking up cosmic objects that may be possible if there is more to gravity than is suggested by Albert Einstein.”

Space is wonderful. We can not understand  why God made the universe like that. He knows where all the noises we hear are coming from.

Source:

Karmela Padavic-Callaghan 2024 Signals from exotic new stars could hide in gravitational wave data | New Scientist 3 October.