Gravitational Wave Background Discovered?
PBS Space Time · Season 2021 · Episode 5
It was pretty impressive when LIGO detected gravitational waves from colliding black holes. Well we’ve just taken that to the next level with a galaxy-spanning gravitational wave detector that may have detected a foundational element of space itself - the gravitational wave background.
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Season
2021
Episode
5
Air Date
17/Feb/2021
Air Time
12:00
Runtime
19 min
Overview
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It was pretty impressive when LIGO detected gravitational waves from colliding black holes. Well we’ve just taken that to the next level with a galaxy-spanning gravitational wave detector that may have detected a foundational element of space itself - the gravitational wave background.
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