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This site, hosted by MIT, explains the science behind the LIGO interferometer and its detection of gravitational waves. The page gives a description of gravitational waves and a brief history of Einstein's prediction of them.
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![]() <a href="https://www.compadre.org/portal/items/detail.cfm?ID=7684">Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Gravitational Waves: Ripples in the Fabric of Space-Time. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, July 16, 2008.</a>
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Title = {Gravitational Waves: Ripples in the Fabric of Space-Time},
Publisher = {Massachusetts Institute of Technology},
Volume = {2025},
Number = {1 May 2025},
Month = {July 16, 2008},
Year = {2008}
}
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