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gravitational radiation

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gravitational radiation [‚grav·ə′tā·shən·əl ‚rād·ē′ā·shən]
(relativity)


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In the July 3 Nature, Deepto Chakrabarty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his colleagues speculate that gravitational radiation may be the cosmic speed enforcer.
The intensity of the waves depends largely on the mass of the neutron stars, and "of all the sources of gravitational radiation that we can anticipate, this is the one that LIGO is most likely to see," he says.
Interacting astrophysical black holes are potentially the strongest source of gravitational radiation accessible to detectors like the LIGO/VIRGO .
 
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