{"id":6804,"date":"2020-09-07T10:22:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T09:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=6804"},"modified":"2020-09-07T10:24:46","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T09:24:46","slug":"high-precision-astrophysics-and-multi-messenger-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/high-precision-astrophysics-and-multi-messenger-studies\/6804\/","title":{"rendered":"High-precision astrophysics and multi-messenger studies"},"content":{"rendered":"
The detection of gravitational waves from the coalescence of black holes by the LIGO<\/a> (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) and the discovery of an electromagnetic counterpart of a gravitational wave source caused by a merging pair of neutron stars have opened up a new paradigm for the study of fundamental physics and astrophysics using a multi-messenger approach, involving gravitational waves and electromagnetic radiation, as well as non-photonic particles<\/a>.<\/p>\n Einstein\u2019s theory of gravity elaborates that spacetime can be curved by the presence of a mass and the curvature of spacetime is manifested as gravity. The theory is built upon the equivalence principle, in which the equality between inertial mass and gravitational mass leads to the acceleration of an object under gravity being independent of the nature and hence internal constituent of the object. Thus, a free-falling object under gravity follows a geodesic in the spacetime. A particular family of geodesics is that of photons, which are massless particles that are practically timeless in the local reference frame comoving with the particles.<\/p>\nGravitational wave and multi-messenger astronomy<\/h3>\n