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Gravity Waves
Credit: Henze/NASA
3D visualization of gravitational waves produced by two orbiting black holes.
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Lack of Gravity Waves Puts Limits on Exotic Cosmology Theories
Credit: K. Thorne (Caltech) and T. Carnahan (NASA GSFC)
Artist's impression of gravitational waves from two orbiting black holes.
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Cosmic Superstrings Might Sing in Gravity Waves
Credit: Matt DePies/UW.
Cosmic superstring loops wiggle and oscillate, producing gravitational waves, then slowly shrink as they lose energy until they disappear.
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LISA Gravity Wave Hunting Mission
Credit: ESA
The LISA mission was planned to be the first space-based mission to attempt the detection of gravitational waves. These are ripples in spacetime that are emitted by exotic objects such as black holes.
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Gravitational Waves
Credit: NASA
Cataclysmic events, such as this artist's rendition of a binary-star merger, are believed to create gravitational waves that cause ripples in space-time.
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Einstein Telescope - Gravitational Wave Observatory
Credit: ASPERA
The proposed Einstein Telescope gravitational wave observatory.
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Scientists Now Expect to Find Gravitational Waves
Credit: LIGO Laboratory
A diagram of the LIGO detector, which will detect the ripples in space-time by using a device called a laser interferometer. The time it takes light to travel between suspended mirrors is measured with high precision using controlled laser light.
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Hunting for Gravity Waves
Credit: S. M. Dickerson, Stanford University
A proposed space mission to detect gravitational waves would split atoms to search for minute acceleration changes caused by passing space-time ripples. In this artist's illustration, the red line represents a laser beam connecting the two spacecraft, and the white stars represent the atom interferometers.


















