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Scientists are getting ready to make a huge announcement that would uphold a...

It's official: Humans just detected gravitational waves for the first time in history. Click here to learn more.A team of scientists from Caltech, MIT, and the LIGO (Laser Interferometer...

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Physicists have detected something unbelievable from space — watch the...

Scientists have announced on February 11 that we have finally recorded an elusive phenomenon Albert Einstein first predicted 100 years ago.Called gravitational waves, the ripples in the fabric of space...

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Here’s how we’d know if we found gravitational waves

Today (Feb. 11) we're expecting scientists to announce a discovery that will change physics as we know it.Physicists may have finally detected ripples in the fabric of spacetime. These ripples are...

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Scientists just detected gravitational waves for the first time ever

A "revolutionary" new era in science has just begun with a violent event deep in space.Today researchers announced that they have detected ripples in the fabric of space called gravitational waves....

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The first discovery of 2 colliding black holes just fundamentally changed our...

A team of scientists just announced a groundbreaking discovery that encompasses everything from Albert Einstein's theories about the laws of physics to the fundamental way we approach our study of the...

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This is the gravitational waves signal that just changed physics forever

Physicists have just confirmed the first detection of ripples in spacetime called gravitational waves.The discovery was made using two laser detectors that recorded gravitational waves coming from a...

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This black hole collision produced the first gravitational waves ever heard

Einstein was right. Ripples through the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves do exist.Physicists just confirmed the first detection in a signal that came from a cataclysmic collision between...

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The event that confirmed Einstein’s wildest prediction happened as life on...

Deep in space, 1.3 billion years ago, two black holes smashed together. When they merged, they emitted some of their energy as gravitational waves.Here on Earth, just five months ago, a massive...

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Gravitational waves were not the only first-ever finding today

For the first time ever, scientists have witnessed gravitational waves, ripples in space time caused by violent cosmic events, like the explosion of a star or the collision of black holes. Researchers...

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7 mind-blowing facts about gravitational waves, the 100-year-old prediction...

On Thursday, a team of scientists announced that they had detected a phenomenon called gravitational waves for the first time.Rumors are circulating that the discovery is worthy of the prestigious...

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This collision was 50 times more powerful than all the stars in the universe...

Today, scientists announced the first-ever gravitational wave detection, and the news is still reverberating around the world.A 900-person team and the hyper-sensitive Laser Interferometer...

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Astronomers finally have a way to track objects that don't emit light

Astronomy as we know it will never be same.Today, February 11, scientists announced that we finally detected ripples in the fabric of spacetime known as "gravitational waves."The signal was detected at...

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How in the world can we ‘hear’ gravitational waves traveling from 1.3 billion...

For the first time ever, scientists have detected ripples through the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves.The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detected these...

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Gravitational waves will unlock these 'revolutionary' secrets of the universe

Ripples in the fabric of space, called gravitational waves, are careening across the universe, right through everything and everyone.Scientists from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave...

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Here's the difference between gravitational waves and gravity waves

If you and your friends are talking gravitational waves this weekend, be careful not to call them "gravity waves."Gravitational waves are the big-deal breakthrough in physics this week, when scientists...

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This is the most profound explanation I've heard of what it means to detect...

The scientific world is still reeling over the first-ever detection of ripples in the fabric of spacetime, called gravitational waves.Albert Einstein predicted their existence 100 years ago but never...

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Here's why golf balls have dimples

Here's why golf balls have dimples.Join the conversation about this story »NOW WATCH: Watch Martin Shkreli laugh and refuse to answer questions during his testimony to Congress

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One of the astronomers behind the 'alien megastructure' discovery says we...

In 2011, a group of citizen scientists working through a crowdsourced planet discovery platform called Planet Hunters flagged a mysterious star emitting a strange light pattern that they couldn't...

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3 brilliant scientists are favored to win a Nobel Prize in Physics — but...

You may have heard that physicists recently made an announcement that could prove to be the most important discovery of the century: the first detection of gravitational waves generated from two...

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This is how close you'd have to be to feel a gravitational wave

In case you missed it, we heard the universe wiggle last week.Einstein predicted back in 1916 that it's possible for anything with mass to ripple spacetime — basically, expand and relax like a...

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