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Physicists in the UK are ready to start construction of a major part of an advanced new experiment, designed to search for elusive gravitational waves. They are already part of two experiments: the UK ...
Just shy of a century after Einstein penned his infamous paper on general relativity scientists finally confirmed a cornerstone of his predictions in 2015 — gravitational waves, little curvatures of ...
Colliding black holes and neutron stars create ripples in spacetime, called gravitational waves. These were "heard" for the first time in September 2015. On Monday, a pair of gravitational-wave ...
When incredibly massive objects collide violently in space, they send out ripples in space-time that reverberate through the cosmos for billions of years. Long after the collisions happen, these ...
Earth is awash in gravitational waves. Over a six-month period, scientists captured a bounty of 39 sets of gravitational waves. The waves, which stretch and squeeze the fabric of spacetime, were ...
This article was produced for The Kavli Prize by Scientific American Custom Media, a division separate from the magazine's board of editors. About a billion years ago, a pair of black holes 30 times ...
Threats of scorching heat, walls of tumbleweed, and countless critters mean innovation is a must for the facilities manager for LIGO Hanford Observatory. Glynn “Bubba” Gateley is not a physicist. And ...
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