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Curious Kids: what are gravitational waves?

  • Written by: Sara Webb, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology
Curious Kids: what are gravitational waves?3D visualisation of gravitational waves produced by two orbiting black holes.Henze/NASA

What are gravitational waves? – Millie, age 10, Sydney

Curious Kids: what are gravitational waves?

What a great question Millie!

To answer this we have to travel back in time, to the year 1916. This is the year famous physicist Albert Einstein published his general theory of relativity.

Einstein had...

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