AP Explains: Just what are Einstein's gravitational waves?
Thursday, February 11, 2016 - 18:00
in Astronomy & Space
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Astronomers on Thursday announced that their new billion-dollar U.S. observatory has detected a gravitational wave, a phenomenon Albert Einstein predicted a century ago in his theory of general relativity. Here's what that breakthrough means....
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