Sentences with phrase «distort spacetime»

By cross-correlating the arrival times of all the different pulses to nanosecond precision across decades, astronomers hope to detect gravitational waves with wavelengths measured in light - months and light - years as their passing periodic ripples distort spacetime around Earth.

But the gravitational disturbance from the black hole pair distorted spacetime, slightly squeezing one arm of the detector while stretching the other -LRB-

Not exact matches

Gravitational waves stretch and compress spacetime, subtly distorting objects they pass through.

They are so massive that they warp spacetime enough to distort light from more distant objects behind them.

The team, once their film work was done, carried out a number of research simulations with Thorne, studying how the swirling spacetime distorted star fields behind the black hole (above).

Because mass and energy distort the shape of spacetime, the Euclidean geometry of standard textbooks can't accurately describe it.

Einstein's 1915 general theory of relativity predicted that events, like two black holes colliding, should distort the fabric of spacetime with gravitational waves.

Look at the spacetime gravity descriptions — you know the one, the two dimensional rubber mat with the heavy mass of a planet distorting it showing how an object falls into the three dimensional spiral of the unknown to science never observed vortex created by the mass of the planet.