Welcome to a new era in astrophysics.
A huge international team of scientists have just announced the discovery of yet another gravitational wave signal sent out by the violent collision of two black holes circling each other 3 billion light-years away and felt on Earth on Jan. 4.
By using the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO), scientists were able to observe the gravitational waves — literal ripples in the fabric of space and time — as they passed through Earth, and all of us, marking just the third time we've seen evidence of these invisible waves in space.
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