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Numerical simulations of the gravitational waves emitted by the inspiral and merger of two black holes. The colored contours around each black hole represent the amplitude of the gravitational radiation; the blue lines represent the orbits of the black holes and the green arrows represent their spins.

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Numerical simulations of the gravitational waves emitted by the inspiral and merger of two black holes. The colored contours around each black hole represent the amplitude of the gravitational radiation; the blue lines represent the orbits of the black holes and the green arrows represent their spins.
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Corey S Powell (coreyspowell@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Feb-2026 06:32:19 JST Corey S Powell

Ten years ago today, physicists reported the first direct detection of gravitational waves, produced by colliding black holes 1.3 billion light years away.
That was when we, as a species, developed space-time eyes. My Invisible Universe column:
https://invisibleuniverse.substack.com/p/the-day-we-evolved-space-time-eyes #space #science #nature #technology

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