TNRTB Archive – Retained for reference information
A team of international astronomers has developed a new model—with implications for RTB’s creation model—to predict the emission of gravity waves in a particular class of supernovae. During a core-collapse supernova, the center of the star is compressed under tremendous pressure and forms a neutron star. According to the new model, the oscillations of the neutron star emit relatively large amounts of gravity waves. Assuming the new model is correct, if a supernova of this class were to explode within the Local Group of galaxies (including the Milky Way Galaxy and Andromeda Galaxy, as well as a number of dwarf satellite galaxies), the gravity waves should be detectable by the current generation of gravity-wave detectors. If confirmed, this test would further strengthen confidence in the theory of general relativity and, consequently, RTB’s cosmic creation model.
Christian D. Ott et al., “A New Mechanism for Gravitational-Wave Emission in Core-Collapse Supernovae,” Physical Review Letters 96 (2006): 201102.
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