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Gravitational Waves

by

Don Dixon/Novapix

Reference

a-eto99-40126

Date

2017-11-15

Artist’s impression of two neutron stars – the compact remnants of what were once massive stars – spiralling towards each other just before merging.
The collision of these dense, compact objects produced gravitational waves – fluctuations in the fabric of spacetime – that were detected by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration on 17 August 2017.