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Can we use the galaxy as a gravitational wave detector?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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What Are the Gravitational Waves in the Universe?

There are several groups doing these studies, watching paulsars. It takes a while because we're talking about very low frequency events. We're talking about gravitational waves that could take years, decades, centuries to propagate across the universe. So be pretty funny if palsars then in turn gave us clues about something else in the universe we didn't even know to look for.

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