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    Gravitational Waves Detected 100 Years After Einstein's Prediction News Release • February 11, 2016 Visit ... Taylor and Joel M. Weisberg in 1982 found that the orbit of the pulsar was slowly shrinking over time because of the release of energy in the form of gravitational waves. ... (Albert Einstein Institute), adds, "Einstein thought ...
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    These plots show the signals of gravitational waves detected by the twin LIGO observatories at Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington. The signals came from two merging black holes, each about 30 times the mass of our sun, lying 1.3 billion light-years away. ... Gravitational Waves Detected 100 Years After Einstein's Prediction News ...
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    gravitational waves, arriving at the earth from a cataclysmic event in the distant universe. This confirms a major prediction of Albert Einstein's 1915 general theory of relativity and opens an unprecedented new window onto the cosmos. Gravitational waves carry information about their dramatic origins and about the nature
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    portion of the combined black holes' mass to energy, according to Einstein's formula E=mc 2. This energy is emitted as a final strong burst of gravitational waves. It is these gravitational waves that LIGO has observed. The existence of gravitational waves was first demonstrated in the 1970s and 80s by Joseph Taylor, Jr., and colleagues.
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    Collage of highlights of LIGO/Virgo achievements in the last 5 years. Images taken from multiple news items. LIGO Celebrates 5th Anniversary of First Gravitational Wave Detection News Release • September 14, 2020 ... 'oh wasn't that the thing on the news with Einstein? It was kinda cool to go from people that say they love physics or are ...
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    There is little doubt that September 14, 2015 will go down in scientific history. It was the day that one of the most intriguing predictions of Einstein's General Relativity morphed from theory into reality. It was the day on which an entirely new field of scientific inquiry, gravitational wave astronomy, was born.
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    Martin Hendry describes how Einstein's theory of gravity shapes our modern world, and how lasers, at the heart of the most sensitive scientific instruments ever built, are opening a whole new way of studying the cosmos. Martin Hendry is Professor of Gravitational Astrophysics and Cosmology at the University of Glasgow.
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    Though Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves in 1916, the first proof of their existence didn't arrive until 1974. In that year, two astronomers, Russell Hulse and Joseph Taylor, using the Arecibo Radio Observatory in Puerto Rico discovered a binary pulsar 21000 light years from Earth. This was exactly the type of system that general relativity predicted should radiate ...
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    Figure 3 illustrates the expected strengths of the gravitational wave, usually called h, wavelength bands and types of sources expected in each band. LIGO (and other similar-size ground-based interferometers such as Virgo in Italy) are sensitive to gravitational waves with frequencies in the range 10 - 2000 Hz. Figure 3: Gravitational Wave ...
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    Jun 28, 2023While LIGO and its partners have detected gravitational waves from sources such as inspiraling pairs of stellar-mass black holes that orbit each other in fractions of a second and generate high-frequency waves up to a few kilohertz, for the last 15+ years, a completely different search for vastly-lower-frequency gravitational waves beyond the reach of LIGO and its partners has also been ...

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