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Matt Williams, and ,Universe Today

Our Newest Space Observatories Will Unveil An Unprecedented View of the Earliest Cosmic Period


The first-time detection of Gravitational Waves (GW) by researchers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) in 2015 triggered a revolution in astronomy. This phenomenon consisted of ripples in spacetime caused by the merger of massive objects and was predicted a century prior by Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity.

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