
#3 Chiara Mingarelli - NANOGrav, Background Gravitational Waves, Black Holes
Cool Worlds Podcast
The Space-Time Curvature
Theory of space-time curvature is that it bends when a heavy mass is put in the middle. But how does that bend change from just being static to some kind of undulation? How do we kind of go to that? Well, there's two ways to think about this. You can think about black holes merging and losing energy as they orbit each other. And so those waves that come from these two big black holes could eventually be detected here at the Earth.
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