UP physicists hunt for gravitational waves

By Harvey Sapigao

Sep 19, 2024 12:11 am

ALBERT Einstein theorized in 1916 that two merging black holes create ripples in the spacetime fabric, similar to how a pebble creates ripples in a pond.

These ripples, called gravitational waves, stretch and squeeze spacetime in amounts so minuscule that they were once believed too faint to detect.

A black hole inside an accretion disk. PHOTO FROM BOLIVIAINTELIGENTE ON UNSPLASH VIA UPD-CS NIP

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