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Gravitational waves - the cosmic chirp

submitted by blacklotus90

8 years 10 months 1 week ago

The sound of the collision from a billion light-years away is the first direct evidence of gravitational waves, the ripples in the fabric of space-time that Einstein predicted a century ago.

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Einstein called it Well played. *promote

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00Scud00 says...

It's all a big hoax, this is really just a viral campaign for a new Pigs In Space feature film.

All hail and praise the intergalactic snout!

Thank goodness for this video's explanation. I kept wondering how they detected the gravitational waves and no stories explained it. The animation here was great.

Now I just wonder how they know so certainly that it was *that* 1-billion-year-old black hole collision that they detected.

Great stuff. *promote

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kingmob says...

Catching it old ...but awesome.

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