Starts With A Bang #42 - Black Holes And Gravitation
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How to Parody a Gravity Wave
Pulsars are the most accurate natural clock in the universe. They keep time so regularly that you can listen to them for a year and still know what has happened. By measuring two pulsars orbiting one another, we could actually using the timing from these pulsars start to measure how much energy is being carried away by black holes. It's absolutely consistent with Einstein's theories prediction for the gravitational waves they should emit.
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