Gravity Waves From Colliding Neutron Stars
from Three-Minute Egghead Hosted by Andy Fell, UC Davis
For the first time, astronomers have observed an object through both visible light and gravitational waves. UC Davis physicist Stefano Valenti, one of the astronomers whose telescopes recorded the colliding neutron stars, talks about the discovery.
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