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    The first direct observation of gravitational waves was made on 14 September 2015 and was announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on 11 February...
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  • discovery of and testing for the waves Anti-gravity Artificial gravity First observation of gravitational waves Gravitational plane wave Gravitational field...
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    Gravitational-wave astronomy is a subfield of astronomy concerned with the detection and study of gravitational waves emitted by astrophysical sources...
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    sources, thus forming the primary tool of gravitational-wave astronomy. The first direct observation of gravitational waves was made in September 2015 by the...
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    Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is a large-scale physics experiment and observatory designed to detect cosmic gravitational waves and to...
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    The gravitational wave background (also GWB and stochastic background) is a random background of gravitational waves permeating the Universe, which is...
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    contains a list of observed/candidate gravitational wave events. Direct observation of gravitational waves, which commenced with the detection of an event by...
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    Virgo interferometer (category Interferometric gravitational-wave instruments)
    a large-scale instrument for detecting gravitational waves. It is in Santo Stefano a Macerata, near the city of Pisa, Italy. The detector – a Michelson...
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    GEO600 (category Interferometric gravitational-wave instruments)
    [needs update] Gravitational radiation Gravitational wave astronomy and first observation of gravitational waves: GW150914, GW151226, GW170104 Fermilab...
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  • the orbits of Mercury and other planets. General relativity also predicts novel effects of gravity, such as gravitational waves, gravitational lensing and...
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    measure gravitational waves—tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime—from astronomical sources. LISA will be the first dedicated space-based gravitational-wave...
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    experiments at CERN, also leading to the declaration of the first observation of gravitational waves. As a simple example, consider the average daily maximum...
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  • (October 16, 2017). "First observation of gravitational waves from merging neutron stars". Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics. Retrieved November...
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    evidence for gravitational radiation was measured on 14 September 2015 by the LIGO detectors. The gravitational waves emitted during the collision of two black...
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  • precession of the perihelion of Mercury, the bending of light in gravitational fields, and the gravitational redshift. The precession of Mercury was...
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  • existence of a scalar field with the desired properties is only speculative. The results from the first observation of gravitational waves in 2015 provide...
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  • gravitational-wave search refers to the use of extremely large interferometers built on the ground to passively detect (or "observe") gravitational wave...
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    available, including notebooks about the first observation of gravitational waves and about the 2019 discovery of a supermassive black hole. Major cloud...
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    TNT equivalent (redirect from Tonne of TNT)
    2020). "Preliminary yield estimation of the 2020 Beirut explosion using video footage from social media". Shock Waves. 30 (6): 671–675. Bibcode:2020ShWav...
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    Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector (KAGRA) is a large interferometer designed to detect gravitational waves predicted by the general theory of relativity...
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    Albert Einstein (category Academic staff of the University of Bern)
    propagate as waves, traveling outward from the source, transporting energy as gravitational radiation. The existence of gravitational waves is possible...
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  • by observation of the GW170817 neutron star merger, is equal to the speed of light (c). The speed of gravitational waves in the general theory of relativity...
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  • of the power in watts produced by various sources of energy. They are grouped by orders of magnitude from small to large. The productive capacity of electrical...
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    space. The first observation of gravitational waves was announced on 11 February 2016. Gravitational waves are disturbances in the curvature of spacetime...
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    these predictions have been confirmed by experiment or observation, most recently gravitational waves. General relativity has developed into an essential...
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  • First report of a functional scanning tunneling microscope (1982) Invention of the atomic force microscope (1986) First observation of gravitational waves...
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  • INDIGO or IndIGO (Indian Initiative in Gravitational-wave Observations) is a consortium of Indian gravitational wave physicists. It is an initiative to set...
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    source. Gravitational-wave astronomy is an emerging branch of observational astronomy which aims to use gravitational waves to collect observational data...
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    interferometer, LIGO, made the first direct observation of gravitational waves. That observation confirmed an important prediction of general relativity, validating...
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  • Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration) (2016). "Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger". Phys. Rev. Lett. 116 (6):...
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