Gravity Waves

GPTKB entity

Statements (50)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf physical phenomenon
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs Gravitational Waves
gptkbp:causedBy Accelerating Massive Objects
gptkbp:detectionDate 2015
gptkbp:detects gptkb:KAGRA
gptkb:Virgo
gptkbp:effectOnSpaceTime Distortion
gptkbp:examplesOfSources Supernovae
Merging Black Holes
Merging Neutron Stars
Rotating Neutron Stars
gptkbp:firstDirectlyDetectedBy gptkb:LIGO
gptkbp:firstNeutronStarMergerObserved gptkb:GW170817
gptkbp:firstNeutronStarMergerObservedDate August 17, 2017
gptkbp:firstNeutronStarMergerObservedWith Electromagnetic Counterpart
gptkbp:firstObservedEvent gptkb:GW150914
gptkbp:firstObservedEventDate September 14, 2015
gptkbp:firstObservedEventType Binary Black Hole Merger
gptkbp:frequency Hz to kHz (LIGO/Virgo)
nHz (Pulsar Timing Arrays)
gptkbp:futureDetector gptkb:LISA
gptkb:Cosmic_Explorer
gptkb:Einstein_Telescope
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Gravity Waves
gptkbp:measures Interferometers
Strain
gptkbp:NobelPrizeYear gptkb:2017_Nobel_Prize_in_Physics
gptkb:Rainer_Weiss
gptkb:Kip_S._Thorne
gptkb:Barry_C._Barish
gptkbp:notDirectlyObservableBy Electromagnetic Telescopes
gptkbp:notToBeConfusedWith Gravity Waves (Fluid Dynamics)
gptkbp:predictedByTheory gptkb:General_Relativity
gptkbp:predicts gptkb:Albert_Einstein
1916
gptkbp:propagateAt gptkb:Speed_of_Light
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Einstein_Field_Equations
Quadrupole Radiation
Ripples in Space-Time
gptkbp:studiedBy Cosmologists
Astrophysicists
Black Hole Mergers
Cosmic Events
Early Universe
Neutron Star Mergers
gptkbp:usedFor Measuring Hubble Constant
Studying Dense Matter Physics
Testing General Relativity
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Waves_in_Fluids
gptkbp:bfsLayer 8