Sentences with phrase «spacetime near»
A mathematical simulation of the warped spacetime near two merging black holes, consistent with LIGO's observation of the event dubbed GW170104.
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As the black holes drew near in a deepening pit of spacetime, they also churned up that fabric, emitting gravitational radiation (or gravity waves, as scientists often call them).
You know, for instance around Earth, you can think of gravity as forming a kind of a well around Earth, which causes the things that pass near Earth, the moon I would say, which is orbiting on its path, to stay within the vicinity because it falls into that gravity well, metaphorically speaking; and in likewise the same way this astronaut that is fictitiously described by our good mathematics professor takes a journey through curved spacetime.
Kramer and his colleagues are trying to do just that: «We can test many different aspects, among them the characteristics of gravitational waves, the propagation of light in gravitational fields, the fact that clocks go slower near massive bodies, the curvature of spacetime, etc..