News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Second Gravitational Wave Detected at LIGO. Parent comment

Re:Second Gravitational Wave Detected at LIGO by sampo on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @08:04PM (#11913076)
> > 10 square degrees in area

> So basically we can only determine the general direction?

10 square degrees is about 0.3% of the full spherical sky.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Second Gravitational Wave Detected at LIGO by im3w1l on Thursday June 16, 2016 @02:02AM (#11914306)
It looks 45 times as big as the sun.
[ Parent | on HN ]