"Unveiling the Cosmic Dance: Visualizing Our Galaxy through Gravitational Waves"

Astronomers have created a visualization of our galaxy as it might appear to a space-based gravitational wave observatory using simulated data. The visualization shows bright spots indicating stronger gravitational wave signals, with brighter spots representing higher frequencies. The data used includes mergers of stellar-mass black holes, neutron stars, and neutron star-black hole mergers. While no space-based gravitational wave observatory currently exists, the planned Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is expected to launch in 2037 and will be capable of detecting gravitational waves at frequencies too low for ground-based detectors.