gravitational waves
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Underground Detector In Japan To Join Search For Gravitational Waves
A fourth gravitational wave detector, this one in Gifu Prefecture, Japan, will join the global search for cosmic events that cause ripples in spacetime, beginning this December.
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Gravitational Wave Detectors May Have Spotted A Neutron Star Colliding With A Black Hole
A pair of objects, each more massive than the Sun but only as wide as a city, have once again produced ripples in spacetime that were picked up by sensitive gravitational wave detectors on Earth. But this time, scientists think they may have measured something even weirder the usual.
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Physicists Spot Four Black Hole Collisions, Including The Largest One Ever Recorded
Physicists have spotted four new instances of black holes colliding and sending their gravitational waves toward the Earth, including the most massive collision recorded to date.
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Space-Based Gravitational Wave Observatory Passes Huge Test
Gravitational waves may be the most exciting thing in astronomy right now, but there are only so many things in space that scientists can study with Earth-based gravitational wave detectors. An incredible new test has demonstrated that space-based detectors could become a reality, which could open our ears to entirely new sources of gravitational waves.