Gravitational Waves Are Awesome

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Everything you need to know about gravitational waves. In February 2016 scientists announced the first detection of gravitational waves by humans on Earth. This was a huge, world changing, discovery. The gravitational waves were caused by a pair of colliding black holes 1.3 billion light years away 1.3 billion years ago. This video summaries all the of the mind blowing facts about the gravitational waves and describes LIGO, the incredibly sensitive telescope that detected them. #gravitationalwaves #space #DomainOfScience Get the maps! https://www.dosmaps.com Here's my Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dcwalliman Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ScienceMaps Errata and clarifications. I endeavour to be as accurate as possible in my videos, but I am human and definitely don’t know everything, so there are sometimes mistakes. Also, because my videos are summaries of some quite complex science, I make simplifications. Some of these are intentional because I don’t have time to go into full detail, but sometimes they are unintentional and here is where I clear them up. 1. I got the month of the original detection wrong! It was September 2015, not November 2015. Silly me, my apologies. 2. “1.3 billion years ago, 1.3 billion light years away” This is incorrect and an oversight on my part. I completely forgot to take into account the expansion of the Universe. The resulting black hole is 1.3 billion light years from us today, but was closer to us when the collision happened, whi

Published 2016-12-31 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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