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"We can observe the universe in this new way; not using light, but using gravity," physicist Brian Greene told Mashable in an interview. As one LIGO scientist pointed out, the discovery is akin to ...

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Gravitons are hypothetical subatomic particles, considered key components in a theoretical quantum theory of gravity. Some ...

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 ...

This "ringdown" creates a clear, recognizable oscillation in gravity. LIGO used ringdown echoes to identify gravitational waves from a collision between black holes, and then about eighteen months ...

The new adaptive optical devices are designed to deliver ring-like targeted heating patterns to the surface of the 34-cm-diameter core optics in LIGO to control the effect of increasing thermal ...

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Although gravity is dominant over large cosmic scales ... patient detective work by the Advanced LIGO experiment. Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox! We'll also keep you up to ...

Read the paper: Real-time inference for binary neutron star mergers using machine learning Gravitational waves are a prediction of general relativity, Albert Einstein’s 1915 theory of gravity.