How to Use gravitational wave in a Sentence

gravitational wave

noun

• The frequency of the gravitational wave tells you the total mass of the system.
  — Steve Nadis, Wired, 23 May 2021
• To detect gravitational waves, LIGO tries to sense changes in length in its two 2.5-mile-long arms.
  — Sophia Chen, WIRED, 20 June 2019
• In the case of a certain type of gravitational wave, the group found that unitary three-point functions are few and far between.
  — Quanta Magazine, 10 Nov. 2021
• The era of gravitational wave astrophysics had dawned, but now it's come of age. . . .
  — Author: Sarah Kaplan, Ben Guarino, Alaska Dispatch News, 16 Oct. 2017
• Do the wave For starters, gravitational waves didn't emerge neatly from Einstein's work on them.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 30 June 2018
• And a shudder — a gravitational wave — rippled across the fabric of space-time.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 29 Dec. 2017
• The first task in any gravitational wave detection is to try to extract a weak signal from that noise.
  — Steve Nadis, Wired, 23 May 2021
• Lost in the collision was an enormous amount of energy in the form of a gravitational wave, a ripple in space that travels at the speed of light.
  — Seth Borenstein, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Sep. 2020
• So gravitational waves left over from the Big Bang itself.
  — Janna Levin, Quanta Magazine, 29 Aug. 2024
• Tiny changes in the travel time of the lasers are indicators of a passing gravitational wave.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 3 Oct. 2017
• In all four detections, the gravitational waves were produced by the merger of two black holes more massive than our sun.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2017
• The advent of gravitational wave detectors—there are now four of them—has recorded a steady flow of black hole mergers.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 Nov. 2022
• The burst of gravitational waves turned out to be a coincidence.
  — NBC News, 5 Feb. 2020
• When these pulsars ride the swell of a gravitational wave, though, the space-time ripple distorts this precision.
  — Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 29 June 2023
• This is the fourth gravitational wave event documented by LIGO in the last two years, although the newest cosmic event is unique.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 16 Oct. 2017
• That's probably based on the properties of the gravitational wave chirp, at least.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 Nov. 2022
• The science of hunting gravitational waves is old on paper and young in practice.
  — Author: Sarah Kaplan, Ben Guarino, Alaska Dispatch News, 28 Sep. 2017
• When the neutron stars collide, a burst of gravitational waves is produced.
  — The Economist, 16 Oct. 2017
• The gravitational wave event only lasted about one-tenth of a second.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 2 Sep. 2020
• The 2017 Nobel physics prize has gone to three scientists whose work led to the first observation of the universe's gravitational waves two years ago.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2017
• The gravitational waves would have shaken electrons in a way to generate tiny B-modes in the cosmic microwaves.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 3 June 2024
• At the time, there was still some debate about whether gravitational waves even existed.
  — Swapna Krishna, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2023
• The strongest gravitational waves come from the collision of black holes or very dense objects called neutron stars.
  — Mary Beth Griggs, The Verge, 3 Dec. 2018
• This marked the first and only time scientists had seen such an event using gravitational waves.
  — Sophia Chen, Ars Technica, 13 Feb. 2023
• The survey data showed a flare, caused by an active supermassive black hole, traced back to the area where the gravitational wave event occurred.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 25 June 2020
• In the past few years, gravitational waves have been detected for the first time: ripples in the fabric of space, coming from colliding black holes and neutron stars.
  — John Gribbin, WSJ, 11 May 2018
• The gravitational waves sent out by colliding black holes make a sound—or translate into a sound—something like a bell being rung.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2024
• Telescopes around the world saw the related explosion, making the event the first ever observed in both light and gravitational waves.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 5 Dec. 2019
• If astronomers could pick up a gravitational wave signature in conjunction with such a GRB in the future, that could tell them more about this kind of stellar death.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 22 June 2023
• Like very long wavelength gravitational waves traveling slower than the speed of light?
  — Janna Levin, Quanta Magazine, 29 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024