
The Universe Is Abuzz with Giant Gravitational Waves, and Scientists Just Heard Them (Maybe)
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Nanograph: The North American Nanohurt Observatory for Gravitational Waves
Nanograph stands for the North American Nanohurt Observatory for Gravitational Waves. We time an array of pulsars to look for gravitational waves signals. It's been around since 2007, so we have over 15 years of data now. What we're looking for are very tiny changes in timing of those pulsars that Chiara mentioned,. So we need to do that for a very long time in order to see them changeover that long time scale.
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