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Waves in spacetime formed by the acceleration of massive bodies. A passing wave causes spacetime to be stretched and squashed by a very small amount. Typically we can only detect the most energic gravitational events such as black hole mergers.
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If an object 1 billion light years away emits light, does it take more than 1 billion years ...
From page 7 of the recent (September 26, 2020) edition of Science News Magazine:
Detected May 21, 2019, the gravitational waves came from a source about 17 billion light-years from Earth, making this …
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Could the revolution of super-massive black holes around each other create a pulsar-array gr...
Some commentators on the recently-observed very-long-wavelength gravitational wave signal involving pulsars, like Dr. Becky Smethurst, have implied that it might not be merging supermassive black hole …
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Why did astronomers believe most or all stellar black holes had masses no greater than 15 so...
The so-called 'mass gaps' for black holes, according to theoretical models, are between 2-5 solar masses and 50 to 150 solar masses. (Actually, I have read that there is no good theoretical reason fo …
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