The new discovery helps support Einstein's theory of relativity.
Calling all astronomy nuts! If you’re into outer space and all the mystifying news that comes with it, prepare yourself for this doozy. Recently-revealed results of scientific experiments have revealed that everything in the universe, including Earth, is being affected by what’s called a “gravitational wave background.”
The Universe As A Cosmic Ocean Think of the universe as a cosmic ocean, with waves caused when massive objects, most likely supermassive black holes, interact with one another. Supermassive black holes — which can be several billion times the mass of our sun, scientists believe — are at the center of every galaxy.
This discovery is exciting for several reasons, including the fact that it lends even more credence to Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. Basically, Einstein’s theory says that massive objects warp the fabric of space-time. If those objects are interacting or moving, they should be sending out gravitational waves — fast, invisible ripples in space.
Astrophysicists theorized that gravitational waves caused by cataclysmic events involving super black holes would be very long and have low frequencies, to the extent that they would throw off the pulsar signals. But the deviation in the pulses is so slight in reality , it took the whole 15 years to detect that the ripple in space-time is actually happening.
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