China launched two satellites to seek out sources of gravitational waves

By Andrew Jones

China has launched a pair of satellites which is able to look ahead to the electromagnetic counterparts which are emitted together with gravitational waves. These alerts can be relayed shortly to the bottom, serving to slim the world of sky scientists want to go looking to seek out the sources of gravitational waves.

These two 140-kilogram satellites make up the Gravitational Wave Excessive-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor (GECAM), which is able to watch all the sky always for alerts from a number of the most violent occasions within the universe – collisions between a …