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Hicks in Dispatch: Detecting Gravitational Waves is Huge

Numerical simulations of the gravitational waves emitted by the inspiral and merger of two black holes. The colored contours around each black hole represent the amplitude of the gravitational radiation; the blue lines represent the orbits of the black holes and the green arrows represent their spins. [Credit: C. Henze/NASA Ames Research Center, February 11, 2016 Physics 9,17]

For the first time, scientists have directly detected gravitational waves. They accomplished this using an extremely sensitive device called the Laser Interferometry Gravitational ¬wave Detector, or LIGO, which can measure tiny ripples in the fabric of space¬time, writes Dr. Kenneth Hicks, Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Ohio University, in […]

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February 17, 2016 at 10:52 amFaculty in the News In the News