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Celebrating a Decade of Gravitational Wave Discoveries and Black Hole Insights

Originally Published 4 months ago — by Space

Since its landmark 2015 detection of gravitational waves confirming Einstein's general relativity, LIGO and its collaborators have made over 300 groundbreaking discoveries, including the heaviest black hole mergers, neutron star collisions, multimessenger astronomy, and the loudest gravitational wave signals, opening new windows into the universe's most extreme events.

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Scientists Discover Rare Exoplanet in Milky Way's Outskirts Using Einstein's Space-Time Effect

Originally Published 6 months ago — by The Daily Galaxy

Astronomers discovered a rare Jupiter-sized exoplanet, AT2021uey b, at the edge of the Milky Way using gravitational microlensing, a method based on Einstein's general relativity, challenging existing models of planetary formation and suggesting planets can form in unexpected regions of the galaxy.

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