When black holes merge, the world shakes.

Such quakes in space-time are now detectable and indeed the detection of such gravitational waves from cosmic coalescences comprises an entirely new type of astronomy that is completely independent of light itself.

A lecture by Katherine Blundell OBE, 19 May

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