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Corey S Powell
Corey S Powell
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Ten years ago today, physicists reported the first direct detection of gravitational waves, produced by colliding black holes 1.3 billion light years away.

That was when we, as a species, developed space-time eyes. My Invisible Universe column:

https://invisibleuniverse.substack.com/p/the-day-we-evolved-space-time-eyes #space #science #nature #technology

Numerical simulations of the gravitational waves emitted by the inspiral and merger of two black holes. The colored contours around each black hole represent the amplitude of the gravitational radiation; the blue lines represent the orbits of the black holes and the green arrows represent their spins.
Numerical simulations of the gravitational waves emitted by the inspiral and merger of two black holes. The colored contours around each black hole represent the amplitude of the gravitational radiation; the blue lines represent the orbits of the black holes and the green arrows represent their spins.
Numerical simulations of the gravitational waves emitted by the inspiral and merger of two black holes. The colored contours around each black hole represent the amplitude of the gravitational radiation; the blue lines represent the orbits of the black holes and the green arrows represent their spins.

The Day We Evolved Space-Time Eyes

Celebrating the tenth anniversary of the newest, most remarkable human sense: the ability to perceive the universe in gravitational waves.
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