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Gravitational Wave Background Discovered?

PBS Space Time

Season 2021Episode 5Aired 2021-02-17
Gravitational Wave Background Discovered?

Gravitational Wave Background Discovered?

It was pretty impressive when LIGO detected gravitational waves from colliding black holes. Well we’ve just taken that to the next level with a galaxy-spanning gravitational wave detector that may have detected a foundational element of space itself - the gravitational wave background.