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Can Gravity Produce Waves That Travel Through Space?
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- 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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