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The Bizarre Behind-The-Scenes Story Of The First-Ever Detection Of Gravitational Waves still from a computer simulation. This simulation shows how the merger would appear to our eyes if we could somehow travel in a spaceship for a closer look. Distant stars appear warped due to the incredibly strong gravity of the black holes. The black holes warp space and time, and this causes light from the stars to curve around the black holes in a process called gravitational lensing. The ring around the black holes, known as an Einstein ring, arises from the light of all the stars in a small region behind the holes, where gravitational lensing has smeared their images into a ring.

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The Bizarre Behind-The-Scenes Story Of The First-Ever Detection Of Gravitational Waves still from a computer simulation. This simulation shows how the merger would appear to our eyes if we could somehow travel in a spaceship for a closer look. Distant stars appear warped due to the incredibly strong gravity of the black holes. The black holes warp space and time, and this causes light from the stars to curve around the black holes in a process called gravitational lensing. The ring around the black holes, known as an Einstein ring, arises from the light of all the stars in a small region behind the holes, where gravitational lensing has smeared their images into a ring.
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The Bizarre Behind-The-Scenes Story Of The First-Ever Detection Of Gravitational Waves

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Gravitational Wave Observatory Reaches Beyond The Quantum LimitThis picture of the source of squeezed light was taken from one of the chamber's viewports at a time when the squeezer was operational and pumped with green light.

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Gravitational Wave Observatory Reaches Beyond The Quantum LimitThis picture of the source of squeezed light was taken from one of the chamber's viewports at a time when the squeezer was operational and pumped with green light.
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Gravitational Wave Observatory Reaches Beyond The Quantum Limit

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The True Nature Of Dark Matter Might Be Found With Gravitational Waves3D illustration of Two black holes swirling around each other about to collide

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The True Nature Of Dark Matter Might Be Found With Gravitational Waves3D illustration of Two black holes swirling around each other about to collide
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The True Nature Of Dark Matter Might Be Found With Gravitational Waves

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Cocoons Of Dying Stars May Also Emit Detectable Gravitational WavesA screenshot of the simulation shows in colorful waves the energetic turbulence of the cocooned jets

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Cocoons Of Dying Stars May Also Emit Detectable Gravitational WavesA screenshot of the simulation shows in colorful waves the energetic turbulence of the cocooned jets
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Cocoons Of Dying Stars May Also Emit Detectable Gravitational Waves

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Hunt For Gravitational Waves Is Back On After 3 Years – What Are We Hoping To Find?Artist impression of an neutron star collision and grid like waves emitting from it.

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Hunt For Gravitational Waves Is Back On After 3 Years – What Are We Hoping To Find?Artist impression of an neutron star collision and grid like waves emitting from it.
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Hunt For Gravitational Waves Is Back On After 3 Years – What Are We Hoping To Find?

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Suspected Real-Time Gravitational Wave Detection Of A Black Hole Eating A Neutron StarStill from a simulation of a neutron star dissolving to a disk as a black hole destroys it

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Suspected Real-Time Gravitational Wave Detection Of A Black Hole Eating A Neutron StarStill from a simulation of a neutron star dissolving to a disk as a black hole destroys it
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Suspected Real-Time Gravitational Wave Detection Of A Black Hole Eating A Neutron Star

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Can We Predict Incredible Stellar Collisions Before They Happen?two deformed almost spherical blobs representing the neutron stars are surrounded by a vorted of particles and light rpresenting the graviational waves.

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Can We Predict Incredible Stellar Collisions Before They Happen?two deformed almost spherical blobs representing the neutron stars are surrounded by a vorted of particles and light rpresenting the graviational waves.
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Can We Predict Incredible Stellar Collisions Before They Happen?

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Physicists Bring Human-Scale Object To An Almost Quantum Standstill For First Timearticle image

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Physicists Bring Human-Scale Object To An Almost Quantum Standstill For First Timearticle image
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Physicists Bring Human-Scale Object To An Almost Quantum Standstill For First Time

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Astronomers Have Detected The Largest Black Hole Merger Yetarticle image

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Astronomers Have Detected The Largest Black Hole Merger Yetarticle image
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Astronomers Have Detected The Largest Black Hole Merger Yet

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Strange Glitch In LIGO Data Turns Out To Have An Incredibly Silly Explanationarticle image

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Strange Glitch In LIGO Data Turns Out To Have An Incredibly Silly Explanationarticle image
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Strange Glitch In LIGO Data Turns Out To Have An Incredibly Silly Explanation

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Our Ability To Find Merging Black Holes Could Increase A Thousandfoldarticle image

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Our Ability To Find Merging Black Holes Could Increase A Thousandfoldarticle image
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Our Ability To Find Merging Black Holes Could Increase A Thousandfold

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We Just Observed Gravitational Waves Again!article image

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We Just Observed Gravitational Waves Again!article image
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We Just Observed Gravitational Waves Again!

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In A Historic Discovery, A Neutron Star Merger Has Been Observed For The Very First Timearticle image

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In A Historic Discovery, A Neutron Star Merger Has Been Observed For The Very First Timearticle image
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In A Historic Discovery, A Neutron Star Merger Has Been Observed For The Very First Time

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Another Gravitational Wave Announcement Is Coming On October 16article image

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Another Gravitational Wave Announcement Is Coming On October 16article image
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Another Gravitational Wave Announcement Is Coming On October 16

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This Is What’s Exciting About The Latest Gravitational Wave Observationsarticle image

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This Is What’s Exciting About The Latest Gravitational Wave Observationsarticle image
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This Is What’s Exciting About The Latest Gravitational Wave Observations

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