Those ripples are probably the distant thunder of countless collisions between supermassive black holes, throughout space and time.
He predicted that the intense gravity of extremely massive objects, like black holes, warps the fabric of space-time.
The NSF funded the 15-year experiment, which is called the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav).
Supermassive black holes are thought to exist at the center of every galaxy.
Her lab runs computer models of merging supermassive black holes to predict how they behave and what signals they send out into space.
Persons:
—, Albert Einstein's, Aurore, Sean Jones, Manuela Campanelli, NASA's James Webb, Noll, Kip Thorne, NASA Goddard Thorne, NANOGrav, LIGO, Stephen Taylor, Lorenzo Ennoggi
Organizations:
Service, Sciences, National Science Foundation, NSF, American Nanohertz, Rochester Institute of Technology, NASA's James Webb Space, Hubble, Telescope, NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage
Locations:
Louisiana, Washington, Europe, India, Australia, China