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The Nanohertz Gravitational-Wave Detection Explained

• Physics 16, 116
Jorge Cham, aka PHD Comics, illustrates how researchers have turned our Galaxy into a giant antenna for catching gravitational waves, spotting for the first time a background hum of such waves.

—Jorge Cham


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