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Gravitational waves are constantly washing over Earth, but an astrophysicist aims to capture them in an entirely new way—by watching distant quasars appear to wiggle due to spacetime distortions. Using data from the Gaia satellite, he’s searching for three-dimensional effects that previous techniques might have missed…
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The Great Cosmic Wiggle: Quasars Reveal Gravity’s Hidden Rhythm
Daniel Strain University of Colorado at Boulder
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Gravitational waves are constantly washing over Earth, but an astrophysicist aims to capture them in an entirely new way—by watching distant quasars appear to wiggle due to spacetime distortions. Using data from the Gaia satellite, he’s searching for three-dimensional effects that previous techniques might have missed…
