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Representation of a black hole's effect on spacetime

Einstein’s gravitational waves ‘seen’ from black holes

Source: BBC

In a breakthrough being compared to the first time Galileo looked through a telescope, researchers have recently detected gravitational waves that originated over a billion light-years from Earth. Learn about this new way of looking at the universe.

This entry was posted in How We See Things and tagged Current Events, Science & Nature on March 1, 2016 by Mikki Gibson.

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