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AU ANUA 761-17
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Gravitational Waves
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MPEG 45.39MB
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(1946 -)
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In 2015 the first direct detection of a gravitational wave was made. This was a momentous discovery in science. A team of ANU physicists played a leading role in this landmark discovery, providing critical technology for the exquisitely sensitive Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory detectors, and creating data analysis techniques and systems for the processing of the gravitational wave data. Research team members are now part of the Centre for Gravitational Astrophysics. This movie is a simulation of the first observation of a binary black hole collision. The author is Susan Scott.
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Embargoed until ANU centenary in 2046.