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Gravity Waves Confirmed 100 Years After Einstein Predicted Their Existence
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Gravity Waves Confirmed 100 Years After Einstein Predicted Their Existence

From National Science Foundation Press Release: February 11, 2016 For the first time, scientists have observed ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves, arriving at Earth from a cataclysmic event in the distant universe. This confirms a major prediction of Albert Einstein’s 1915 general theory of relativity and opens an unprecedented new window […]

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ESO: Black Holes Aligned Despite Being Over Billions of Light Years Apart
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ESO: Black Holes Aligned Despite Being Over Billions of Light Years Apart

Image: Artists impression of quasars aligned with each other in a galactic superstructure. Credit ESO This is truly strange, and a pretty clear indication that our conception of how the universe is built is still very incomplete. From the ESO: Observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile have revealed alignments over the largest […]

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