LIGO announcement spoiler alert (Patreon)

"Scientists representing LIGO, Virgo, and some 70 observatories will reveal new details and discoveries made in the ongoing search for gravitational waves. This will take place on Monday, October 16th, at 10:00am EDT..."

Tune in tomorrow here if you want to catch the announcement: https://www.youtube.com/c/VideosatNSF/live

For those of you who like to know stuff before everyone else, here's the scoop: The announcement will be the detection of gravitational waves from merging neutron stars, which were also spotted as a short gamma ray burst (sGRB) - a phenomenon already believed to be the result of merging NSs. The event was also detected in x-rays, UV, visible, infrared, and radio light. We already talked about this in a previous episode when the rumour first came out (https://youtu.be/kL81uuYW9BY) but I now have confirmation from an author of one of the (many) papers on the subject that will appear on the archive tomorrow.

- Matt