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What is the gravitational constant?
Space via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe gravitational constant can be used to calculate the gravitational pull between two objects. An illustration of the gravitational fields of the Earth...
Gravitational wave detector LIGO is back online after 3 years of upgrades – how the world's most...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 12 months agoWhen two massive objects – like black holes or neutron stars – merge, they warp space and time. Mark...
Astronomers search for sources of mind-bending gravitational hum permeating the universe
Salon via Yahoo News· 5 months agoGravitation waves, 3D illustration Getty Images/andreusK In June, scientists presented compelling...
Bringing classical physics into the modern world with Galileo's Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 4 months agoA centuries-old experiment shows the differences between classical and modern physics. Physicists...
Black Holes Could Give Us Clues About Dark Energy (And the Expanding Universe)
Popular Mechanics via AOL· 2 years agoNew research suggests that using gravitational waves from the collisions of distant black holes...
Astronomers poised to hunt new kind of gravitational wave
Space via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAn artist's impression of a neutron star surrounded by a disk of material that it is stealing from a...
Scientists prove that plunging regions exist around black holes in space
PA Media: Science via Yahoo News· 1 day agoScientists have proven one of Einstein’s theories, finding evidence that a plunging-region around...
Faint gravitational waves may be from primordial fractures in space-time
Space via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe early universe may have been such a violent place that space-time itself fractured like a pane...
Newly discovered black hole 'speed limit' hints at new laws of physics
Live Science via Yahoo News· 9 months agoAn artist's impression of two black holes subject to each other's gravity. Researchers have...
LIGO gravitational wave detector breaks 'quantum limit' to find deep universe black hole collisions
Space via Yahoo News· 7 months agoThe sensitivity of LIGO has squeezed the quantum limit, meaning it can now detect merging black...