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Artist’s image: Gravitational waves (Credit: NASA) |
Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of spacetime, created when two massive objects – such as black holes or neutron stars – hurtle around each other at extremely high speeds and collide.
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The LIGO detector in Hanford, Washington (Credit: LIGO) |
FURTHER EXPLORATION
Advanced:
- LIGO press release: Gravitational Waves Detected 100 Years After Einstein’s Prediction
- Physical Review Letters: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
- PSI master’s course: Explorations in Numerical Relativity, taught by Luis Lehner and Frans Pretorius