Name: Gravitational Waves
Uploaded: 2016-01-01
Duration: 12 min 35 s
Description: Einstein was correct about gravitational waves. Here is a short primer on these up-to-now-only theoretical waves. And you will find out how we have finally confirmed Einstein's theory and what the research into gravitational waves will tell us about the beginnings of our Universe.

Einstein was correct about gravitational waves. Here is a short primer on these up-to-now-only theoretical waves. And you will find out how we have finally confirmed Einstein's theory and what the research into gravitational waves will tell us about the beginnings of our Universe.

See how Einstein's prediction of gravitational waves was finally confirmed, and why that discovery transformed astrophysics. This episode explains the science behind these ripples in space-time, the instrument built to detect them, and what they may reveal about black holes and the universe's earliest moments. Sign up to watch a breakthrough that changes how we observe reality.

When space-time ripples, a new way of seeing the universe begins.

Gravitational Waves

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