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LIGO’s 10th anniversary gift confirms Hawking’s theorem

LIGO’s 10th anniversary gift confirms Hawking’s theorem

Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he answers the biggest questions of all. It’s hard to believe, but it’s now been 10 full years since the twin Advanced LIGO detectors — in Hanford, WA and Livingston, LA — were completed and turned on for the first time. Just days …

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LIGO’s heaviest black hole demands next-generation science

LIGO’s heaviest black hole demands next-generation science

Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he answers the biggest questions of all. If you want to detect a gravitational wave, you have to design something extraordinary. Gravitational waves are ripples in spacetime — distortions in the very fabric of spacetime itself — that propagate at the speed of …

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