Recent content by mike215

I'm not so much impressed by the luminosity "size" of a star is as by its mass. Antares is only 15 times more massive but 680 times as large as the sun. Most of that is nebulous. An interesting comparison would be density as a function of radius.

The only way to spot a GW source is via LIGO, hence it was clickbait as noted by the original poster who recognized it as such. Try not to be so insulting, it is a minor misinterpretation on your part, not a big deal.

"Spotting" a gravitational source did not occur if the detector isn't capable/didn't detect it, which was the point of the article. You assume LIGO and such can detect GW that feeble.

Nope it is definitely clickbait. The article title says they spot the gravitational waves source from the binary. Quite different from spotting a potential gravitational wave source that is a binary. And I'm familiar with gravitational waves as I do have a MS in physics.