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The size and spin of black holes can reveal how and where they were born, and gravitational waves offer a way to decode this information like a cosmic DNA test.

The UK and US governments will spend £25m upgrading the machines that made the historic first detection ... Advanced LIGO. Pallab Ghosh explains the sound of the gravitational wave and a computer ...

With a project of this size—around 800 miles long, to be precise—other discoveries are also possible. In fact, a recently ...

The signals were picked up by the Advanced LIGO facilities in the US and ... out as light which is why you have to have gravitational wave detectors." Gravitational waves - Ripples in the fabric ...

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On Sept. 14, 2015 astronomers “heard” two black holes crashing into each other at close to the speed of light. This discovery was a watershed moment in physics and astrophysics, ...

Print. * Aasi, J, et al. "First Low Frequency All-sky Search for Continuous Gravitational Wave Signals." Physical Review D 93. (2016): 42007. Print. * Abbott, B P, et al. "GW150914: The Advanced LIGO ...

Gravitational waves, as detected by facilities like the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and Virgo Observatory, could be used to "read" this information like the writing on a ...