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The Universe Is Abuzz with Giant Gravitational Waves, and Scientists Just Heard Them (Maybe)

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Cosmos Quick: A Scientific Americans Podcast

Jeff Doveseo: "I'm really excited as we move in past the detection era and into the observation era" Lee Billings: Once we start to characterize the background, we're going to be able to just study the nanohurt's window of gravitational waves. We'll see what it is we can see with our amazing instrument that's half the size of our galaxy.

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