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An experiment that reaches across our galaxy has detected the first signs of a possible 'sea' of ripples in space-time
Supermassive black holes merging in distant galaxies could be creating a background hum of gravitat…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Einstein thought we'd never detect ripples in space-time. But 100 years later, a remarkable experiment is proving him wrong over and over.
Einstein predicted that noise and vibrations on Earth would prevent us from ever being able to dete…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A collision in space revealed a black hole that physicists thought could never exist. The observatory that detected it cracked a 100-year-old mystery posed by Einstein.
Scientists detected ripples in space-time from the most massive, distant space collision ever found…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Colliding black holes the size of Lucknow merged to create light for the first time
A black hole merger between two partner black holes — with a combined mass of 150 suns but only as …
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Black holes can produce light when they collide, new research shows — astronomers just saw the first-ever 'flare' from a spacetime-bending merger
Two black holes crashed together and merged within a disk of hot matter orbiting another larger bla…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Two dead stars are dancing around each other proving Einstein's theory right
A star that’s 1.27 times the mass of the Sun is dragging the fabric of space and time with it
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Millions of black holes are speeding around the Milky Way after being kicked at birth
Travelling at speeds greater than 70 kilometers per second — that’s 252,000 kilometers per hou…
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Two dead stars are causing an eclipse every seven minutes
Two white dwarf stars, more or less the same size as the Earth, are circling each other at hundreds…
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India’s places its first robotic telescope in one of the world’s highest astronomical observatories
But, essentially, the telescope has the potential to capture any event that has an electroma…
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Scientists won the Nobel Prize for detecting gravitational waves - here's why that matters
LIGO's first detection of a gravitational wave was a team effort involving hundreds of scientists a…
Rob Ludacer,Rob Ludacer,Dave …
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BREAKING: Scientists have discovered gravitational waves
A team of scientists announced that they have discovered gravitational waves at a press conference.…
Devan Joseph
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Gravitational waves could help solve these mysteries of the universe
For the second time in less than a year, physicists have detected ripples in the fabric of spacetim…
Skye Gould,Sarah Kramer,Dave …
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Physicists want to 'listen' for these 7 bizarre phenomena in space using gravitational waves
"Einstein continues to rock, in the sense that we keep pushing the boundaries of his theory," Vicky…
Skye Gould,Dave Mosher
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Gravitational waves are teaching scientists the 'native language' of black holes
Until we recorded their gravitational waves, all evidence of black holes was indirect. "The regular…
Sarah Kramer
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Newly discovered gravitational waves hint that 'cities' of black holes may lurk in space
LIGO may also eventually aid in listening to the parts of the universe that were created shortly af…
Dave Mosher
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Gravitational waves were not the only first-ever finding today
"Having gravitational waves as a tool will enable us to study black holes, and black holes hold the…
Sean Kane
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Scientists just detected gravitational waves for the first time ever
"Having gravitational waves as a tool will enable us to study black holes, and black holes hold the…
Dave Mosher
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This is how close you'd have to be to feel a gravitational wave
By now, we all know some of the basic parameters here: a merger of two black holes, ~1.3 billion li…
Rafi Letzter
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This black hole collision produced the first gravitational waves ever heard
Physicists just confirmed the first detection in a signal that came from a cataclysmic collision be…