Gravitational waves discovered as two black holes merge!

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11 Feb 2016 20:08 #228000 by
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Scientists have actually managed to measure gravitational waves as two black holes merged 1.3 billion lightyears away!

Here's the paper published in the journal Physics Reviews Letters .

And here's the blog that gave me that link and explained it a bit better for my non-physicist brain .

Is that cool or what?! :woohoo:

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Awesome. They been lookin for these for a long time!

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11 Feb 2016 23:42 - 11 Feb 2016 23:42 #228060 by Locksley
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This is seriously effing awesome. Thanks for sharing!
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