Explainer: why you can hear gravitational waves when things collide in the universe
- Written by David Blair, Director, WA Node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery, formerly the Australian International Gravitational Research Centre, University of Western Australia
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Whenever there’s an announcement of a new discovery of gravitational waves there is usually an accompanying sound, such as this:
The sound of first gravitational waves detected.We have only detected half a dozen signals so far. The first five are black holes whose chirp signal is extremely brief. The last one is the sound of a pair...
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