Black holes shake the universe

by RÜDIGER VAAS

When the first measurement of gravitational waves was announced on February 11, 2016, the sensational news graced the front pages of many newspapers around the world. Evidence of these tiny ripples in space-time, predicted by Albert Einstein as early as 1916, is now commonplace for astronomers – and mostly not even worth a side note for the big media. The extremely difficult measurements are getting better and better, more frequent and, above all, more meaningful in terms of their scientific importance.

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