Pulsar timing array detects evidence of gravitational wave background (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Pulsar timing array detects evidence of gravitational wave background

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Artist’s interpretation of an array of pulsars being affected by gravitational ripples produced by a supermassive black hole binary in a distant galaxy.

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Aurore Simonnet for the NANOGrav Collaboration

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