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Neutron Star Merger
November 4, 2015
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Animation of binary neutron star merger
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What Are the Sources of Gravitational Waves?
October 1, 2015
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Part 2 of Gravitational Waves Q&A with Caltech's Kip Thorne, Rana Adhikari, and Sarah Gossan. Sarah Gossan explains what types of sources cause gravitational waves.
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Direct Detection of Gravitational Waves: What Will It Mean?
October 1, 2015
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Part 3 of Gravitational Waves Q&A with Caltech's Kip Thorne, Rana Adhikari, and Sarah Gossan explaining what the direct detection of gravitational waves will mean.
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What are Gravitational Waves?
October 1, 2015
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Part 1 of Gravitational Waves Q&A with Caltech's Kip Thorne, Rana Adhikari, and Sarah Gossan. Kip Thorne explains what gravitational waves are.
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Gravitational Waves
July 10, 2015
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An animation of artist's concept of gravitational wave propagation.
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LIGO: On the Front Lines of Space-Time
February 27, 2015
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LIGO Laboratory is poised to open an entirely new window on the universe by detecting gravitational waves from colliding black holes and neutron stars with its newly updated instrumentation. The name LIGO stands for Laser Interferometer Gravitational O...
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What are Neutron Stars?
January 4, 2015
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A video explaining the lifespan of a star: how it is born, how it lives its life and becomes a neutron star or a black hole.
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Two Black Holes Merging (view from the side)
November 4, 2014
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A visualization of the last few orbits of a binary black hole merger. The camera is roughly in the orbital plane of the merger.
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Two Black Holes Merging (view from above)
November 4, 2014
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A visualization of the last few orbits of a binary black hole merger. The camera is above the orbital plane of the merger, looking down.
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Gravitational Wave Astronomy -- Opening a New Window on ...
July 23, 2014
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Martin Hendry describes how Einstein's theory of gravity shapes our modern world, and how lasers, at the heart of the most sensitive scientific instruments ever built, are opening a whole new way of studying the cosmos.
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What is Space-Time?
February 5, 2013
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In this video of PBS's Closer To Truth, Caltech Professor Kip Thorne talks about the concept of space-time.
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Einstein's Messengers
March 1, 2005
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Einstein's Messengers is an award-winning documentary on LIGO, NSF's Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory. The video examines how LIGO is spearheading the new field of gravitational wave astronomy and opening a whole new window on the un...
 
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