LISA Science

LISA will detect the ripples in space-time caused by the most vigorous motions of mass in the universe. It will easily detect thousands of exotic close binary stars in our Milky-Way galaxy, as well as almost all of the large and small black holes which collide with the supermassive black holes at the centers of most galaxies throughout the universe. More speculatively, it might also detect the collisions or collapses that formed supermassive black holes at high redshifts, and several proposed cosmological backgrounds.

  • Exotic Binary Stars
  • Stellar mass Black holes scattered into Supermassive Black Holes
  • Collisions of Supermassive Black Holes in the Nuclei of Merging galaxies
  • Formation of Supermassive Black Holes
  • Cosmic Backgrounds
  • The Unknown and Unexpected

    • For more details on these sources and what could be learned from them, go here or the JPL LISA site

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