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Was the Gravitational Wave Background Finally Discovered?!?
Season 9
Episode 20
A few weeks ago a large team of gravitational wave astronomers announced something pretty wild - pervasive ripples in the fabric of space time detected by the signals from rapidly spinning cores of dead stars in our galactic neighborhood. In other words, the gravitational wave background has probably been detected using a pulsar timing array.
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