Tuning pulsars to listen in on massive galaxies
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DOI: 10.1038/s41550-017-0334-7
Abstract: Orbiting supermassive black holes in the centres of nearby galaxies contribute to a gravitational-wave background over the whole sky. Networks of millisecond pulsars are sensitive to this signal. Creating maps of this background using information… read more here.
Keywords: tuning pulsars; massive galaxies; pulsars listen; listen massive ... See more keywords