Riding the Gravitational Wave

During a national press conference last week, it was announced that a decades-long collaboration had successfully measured gravitational waves. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory – commonly referred to as LIGO – is designed to detect gravitational waves from some of the most exciting cosmic events in the universe. Once these evasive waves are caught, they reveal information about the bodies releasing them.

Summerscales, an associate professor of physics at Andrews University for nearly a decade, said these waves allow for the possibility to watch scientific events that have never been observed, such as black holes colliding and supernova explosions.

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