Sentences with phrase «distorted by gravitational waves»

If two people were floating near, say, a pair of merging black holes, the space between them would grow and shrink as space - time was stretched and distorted by gravitational waves.

Not exact matches

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.

What scientists really wanted, however, was a direct detection - to observe the distorting effect of a gravitational wave emitted by a celestial object that has travelled across the universe and then passed through the Earth.