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Riding the Gravitational Wave

   Andrews in the News | Posted on February 22, 2016

It’s hard to make general relativity and astrophysics exciting.

Tiffany Summerscales found a way to do so.

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 老司机传媒 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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