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Gravitational waves

Physics

Freak gravitational waves could form black holes and destroy Earth

Gravitational waves that are flat instead of curved could form black holes when a pair of them crash together and tangle up space-time. Don't worry though, they probably won't

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space-time

Physics

The space-time echoes that point to a new theory of reality

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A visualization of a supercomputer simulation of merging black holes sending out gravitational waves

Physics

Dark matter could be produced by twisted gravitational waves

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Illustration of colliding neutron stars

Space

Light from LIGO’s neutron star smashup just got even brighter

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Space

Giant star smash-up may have made the biggest neutron star ever

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Physics

Dark energy survives neutron star crash test while rivals fail

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Space

The 5 biggest discoveries from the hunt for gravitational waves

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Illustration of colliding neutron stars

Physics

Gravitational waves have let us see huge neutron stars colliding

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Atomic clock

Physics

The most precise atomic clock ever made is a cube of quantum gas

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Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne

Physics

Gravitational wave discoverers win physics Nobel prize

Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne share the Nobel prize for physics for their contributions to the LIGO gravitational wave detector

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Space

Latest gravitational wave isn’t from neutron stars after all

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Space

Exclusive: We may have detected a new kind of gravitational wave

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Earth

Quantum gravity detector will use atom clouds to survey for oil

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Space

ESA approves gravitational-wave hunting spacecraft for 2034

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