Einstein's wild prediction
The ultimate measuring sticks
The day the universe trembled
The future of wave hunting
YOUR GOAL
Master of Ripples in spacetime
artiteacher The future of wave hunting
We're hunting ripples in space! (Oh yeah, in deep space!) / A laser triangle finding their trace! (Ooh-ooh, finding their trace!)
artiteacher Gravitational waves could allow us to look back to the very beginning of the universe.
artiteacher Astronomers use rapidly spinning pulsar stars across the Milky Way to detect giant, slow-moving waves.
artiteacher Aim giant space lasers to discover how future detectors hunt gravitational waves.
LISA's massive scale: While Earth-based LIGO's arms are 4 kilometers long, the space-based LISA detector will have arms stretching 2.5 million kilometers through space.
An instrument that uses the interference of light waves to measure extremely small distances. Planned for launch in 2035, a space-based observatory will use lasers to measure cosmic ripples.
What mysterious cosmic substance might be explained by studying primordial black holes with waves?
What cosmic event happened 380,000 years after the Big Bang that finally allowed light to travel?
What type of rapidly spinning star is used as a natural galactic clock to detect waves?