CIERA’s Professor Fred Rasio, pictured far left, and Carl Rodriguez, Ph.D. student, are senior author and lead author, respectively, of an important new paper. Highlights include:
–New observatories poised to directly detect — for the first time — gravitational waves predicted by Einstein.
–Merging black holes can’t be seen but they can be ‘heard’ through gravitational waves.
–Detecting gravitational waves will open a new window into the universe.
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