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The detection of #GravitationalWaves features in many lists of the most important scientific breakthroughs of the decade. Here's the @SmithsonianMag list...
smithsonianmag.com/science-nature…
...and here's @NatGeo ... nationalgeographic.co.uk/science-and-te…
..."From gene-editing to gravitational waves" were on the @nature list...
...while #GravitationalWaves made no. 3 on the @newscientist list...

newscientist.com/article/mg2443…
...and no. 2 on the @Forbes list...

forbes.com/sites/startswi…
...And @SPACEdotcom highlighted #GravitationalWaves among a host of "out of this world" discoveries!

space.com/decade-in-astr…
It's 10 years since @PhysicsWorld began awarding its annual Breakthrough of the Year award - and #GravitationalWaves featured in both 2016 and 2017...

physicsworld.com/a/top-10-physi…
What will be the physics breakthroughs of the 2020s? @PhysicsWorld looks ahead to more #GravitationalWaves detectors in the pipeline - in both Japan and China (but don't forget @LIGOIndia is set to join this decade too, @PhysicsWorld 🤩🔭🌎) physicsworld.com/a/physics-in-t…
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@melizeche @Rainmaker1973 @ProfBrianCox Amazing question. There are perhaps 3 neat ways to think about it:
@melizeche @Rainmaker1973 @ProfBrianCox 1. All the properties of a black hole scale with its mass: Big black holes are *identical* to small ones except scaled up. They are not like other objects where you could count the number of atoms or LEGO bricks they are made of
@melizeche @Rainmaker1973 @ProfBrianCox If you were to see a picture of a black hole without a scale bar, it'd be impossible to tell how big it is. The luminosity during merger is one of their universal properties, the same no matter how you scale the system
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Where are your feral hog peeps? I know you're hiding someone in the glorious mess of scicomm Twitter somewhere...

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