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
• 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
• 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
• That's probably based on the properties of the gravitational wave chirp, at least.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 Nov. 2022
• 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
• 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
• His sponsorship of the gravitational wave project at NASA is a good example.
  — Paul Smith-Goodson, Forbes, 16 June 2022
• But the scientists expect to find more evidence of the gravitational wave background in the future.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 June 2023
• And less than a year went by before Einstein published a paper that used the new paradigm to produce gravitational waves.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 30 June 2018
• The black hole in this study is 6.5 billion times more massive than our sun, whereas the gravitational wave detectors on Earth monitor black holes that are five to several dozen times the mass of the sun.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 2 Oct. 2020
• Chen can use a merger’s gravitational wave signal to calculate the distance from Earth to those neutron stars.
  — WIRED, 13 Feb. 2023
• In this case, the issue is the measurement of the light, which forms an interference pattern that will shift subtly if the lasers have been altered by a passing gravitational wave.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 2 July 2020
• But most importantly, LIGO will be able to pick up gravitational waves from much farther away.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 15 Feb. 2019
• The discover offers a new test bed for understanding the ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves.
  — National Geographic, 4 Apr. 2018
• Just after the gravitational waves arrived, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope picked up a two-second-long gamma-ray burst.
  — Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024