LIGO first captured hints of these black hole ... so by studying the ways they interact with gravity, they can piece together a little more about how these mysterious objects -- and others like ...

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Gravitational waves are ripples in space-time, first predicted by Einstein over a century ago and only observed for the first time in 2015 by part of what is now the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration.

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