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Detecting gravitational waves - Nature Podcast

Detecting gravitational waves - Nature Podcast

Update: 2025-09-12
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In 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) facilities in the US directly detected ripples in space-time, known as gravitational waves. These waves were produced by the final spiral of two orbiting black holes that smashed into each other, sending ripples across the Universe. 


  

In this podcast, Benjamin Thompson speaks to Cole Miller from the University of Maryland about the quest to detect gravitational waves, which were first hypothesised by Albert Einstein back in 1916. 


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Detecting gravitational waves - Nature Podcast

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