Physics · Relativity & Gravitation
A topic within Relativity & Gravitation, itself one of 12 topics in that field and part of Physics.
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Tessa Baker (The Royal Institution)
Explains that a merger's waveform encodes the masses and spins of the objects that produced it, so gravitational waves are a measurement channel rather than a curiosity.
link checked 17 Sept 2026B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration)
Reports the direct detection of a ripple in spacetime from two black holes spiralling together, a century after general relativity predicted such waves should exist.
16 pageslink checked 17 Sept 2026Notes on this copy