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Can Gravity Produce Waves That Travel Through Space?

šŸ’” The Answer

  • Ripples in spacetime called gravitational waves are generated by cataclysmic events.
  • Merging black holes produce detectable waves stretching and squeezing space.
  • LIGO first directly observed these waves in 2015, confirming Einstein's prediction.
  • Gravitational waves carry information about their violent origins.

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