Saturday, October 18, 2025

Listening For Gravitational Waves In The Rhythm of Pulsars

An illustration of binary supermassive black holes against a grid of space. The gravitational waves created by the black holes cause ripples in space and time. Credit: NANOGrav / Olena Shmahalo

Astronomers are listening for cosmic gravitational waves in the rhythm of pulsars. But even after finding them, they will need to distinguish between cosmic waves and the more local waves of black holes.



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