A new signal from a gravitational
wave was detected Wednesday night and could be the most
important yet, National Nuclear Physics Institute (INFN)
scientist Giovanni Prodi said Friday.
The signal could be evidence of a neutron star being
swallowed up in a single gulp by a black hole, he said.
It would be the first such evidence of a similar cosmic
phenomenon, Prodi said.
Months of analysis of the readings from the three LIGO-Virgo
detection systems will be needed, he said.
INFN scientists celebrated in October 2017 when the Nobel
Prize in physics went to the "LIGO-Virgo detector collaboration"
that discovered gravitational waves.
The LIGO-Virgo collaboration involved 1,500 physicists from
over 20 countries around the world, including at least 200
Italian scientists.
Italian scientists were the driving force of the Virgo
detector.
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