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Official Twitter of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. We detect gravitational waves! YouTube: https://t.co/sAfsOXt5Tw
Dec 31, 2019 8 tweets 7 min read
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…
Nov 3, 2018 7 tweets 6 min read
@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