List of Confirmed Sources of Gravitational Waves
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Accelerating masses radiate gravitational waves, disturbances in the curvature of spacetime, at the speed of light. The table below lists observationally confirmed sources of gravitational waves.
| Source | Year First Detected |
|---|---|
| Binary black hole merger[1] | 2015 |
| Binary neutron star merger[2] | 2017 |
References[edit]
- ↑ "Gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger observed by LIGO and Virgo". LIGO Lab | Caltech. Retrieved 2019-08-31.
- ↑ "LIGO Detection of Colliding Neutron Stars Spawns Global Effort to Study the Rare Event". LIGO Lab | Caltech. Retrieved 2019-08-31.
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